We stayed at the amazing Juyongguan Great Wall Hotel last night. Lovely hotel, oh so pretty rooms and buildings. It's right next to the wall, actually surrounded by it - beautiful.
Final day of trekking the great wall! Up at 4am to climb the mountain in the dark to reach the highest tower for sunrise. Drinking the night before (as usual) probably not wise but we lived! We all started off fairly quiet and tired in the pitch black climbing with our torchers. It's just as well it was dark so we couldnt see how high up we had to go! Massive steps!! And as soon as we thought we had reached the top we realised there was so many more steps to come! Massive mountain to climb! The sun was coming up as we climbed and we all had breakfast at the highest tower watching the sun rise over the mountains.
We then went down again and had our group photos taken then onto the final length of the wall, which as per usual meant going back up again in order to come back down! Bit sad for it to be finally over but it was nice to look back at the wall opposite at what we had achieved in the morning and all cross the finish line back at the hotel. Passed the finish line then onto Beijing :D
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