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Hiking the Great Wall

by Jessica Marsden on April 12, 2010

A few hours north of Beijing, the Great Wall snakes unobtrusively along mountain ridges, the grey and tan of the stones blending into the brown mountains. If you aren’t looking for it, you might never know that it was there. But from atop the wall, it appears to go on forever, dipping out of sight [...]

Tagged as: Beijing, blogsherpa, China, Great Wall, hiking, Jinshanling, Simatai

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Just a Bad Idea: Dog on a Zipline

by Jessica Marsden on April 8, 2010

I promised to tell you about my hike along the Great Wall from Jinshanling to Simatai today. But it’s been a bit of a week, what with a houseguest, bedbugs, and an imminent conference for work. Writing that post fell by the wayside. So instead, I give you what is, I believe, a bad idea [...]

Tagged as: Beijing, Great Wall, Photos, WTF?

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