The Great Wall of Fog

After a long night at Cargo, waking up at 7 a.m. to head to the Great Wall of China was quite taxing but something that doesn’t happen very often. I mean to go to one of the greatest wonders of the world was probably a once in my lifetime experience. We went to the wall with a group of like 30 people from Getty. For those of you who don’t know much about the wall it is just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 4,163 miles from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, some of the sections of the great wall are now in ruins or even entirely disappeared.

Once we arrived at the wall, it started to pour, which was completely unexpected. Luckily for us there were about 100 vendors ready and waiting to sell us parkas and umbrellas. After buying an umbrella for like a dollar we avoided buying anything else from the hawking vendors. The only word in English they knew was “one dollar.” As the rain hailed down we climbed to the top of the hill and reached a gondola that took us to a part of the wall. Once on the wall, the fog was so thick it was very hard to see much of the wall but we got the idea of the magnitude by climbing up and down a big portion of it. The rain finally stopped but the fog was still covering a great distance. The part of the wall went to was not very touristy which was nice so it was not packed with people. There were some people but our group dominated the portion of the wall we were on. We took pictures for two hours or so and headed back. It was probably one of the coolest places I have ever been to and would love to go back and spend a day there in a different section. Unfortunately because of the rain the toboggan rides were closed.