Jinshanling

It has been a busy month or so for us with a lot of visitors coming into town to stay with us. Not that this is a bad thing, since we love it when people come to visit! All the visitors also means that I've had the chance to go out with our friends to check out some of Beijing's sites, including another trip to the Great Wall. This time, we hired a driver to take us to Jinshanling, where we did a 10km hike to Simatai. This section of the wall is another portion of "wild" wall which has avoided being renovated and beautified. So what you get is a nice long hike that stretches over the Chinese hills, walking on the overgrown and crumbling sections of the Great Wall. Truly spectacular.

This photo is of the hills surrounding the Great Wall. I sure wouldn't have wanted to be an invading army that trekked through all those hills just to find myself face to face with an imposing and seemingly unassailable wall.

Date: November 23, 2008
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Aperture: f/10
Shutter speed: 1/160
ISO: 200
Focal length: 50mm
Format: NEF