The Great Wall of China

The second day of this weekend took us to the Great Wall of China and we passed by the Olympic installation in the East of the City, which was really cool. Not only was the Aquatic Cube enormous, but the Bird's Nest was a really impressive structure, and looked even more cool in real life than on television :-)

After 1.5 hours of travel we finally made it to the Mu-tian-yu section of the Great Wall of China which was absolutely spectactular. The Wall took over 200 years to build and was put in place to keep the marauding Manchurians (I love that word, Manchurians) and the Mongols from the Chinese territory during various dynasties such as the Qin, Ming and Qian dynasties. For some reason, Mao gets a look in and there is an inscription to his longevity in the hillside... Anyway, here is the other one on the wall as well!

The other one had loads of people staring at him, and it was quite entertaining to him that somebody wanted to have their photograph taken with him. The guide mentioned something about him looking really Western in comparison to the other people in the party. He was also quite proud when somebody in the Chinese office mentioned that he looked like Jason Statham. Silly fool - he should be so lucky!!!

Before heading to the airport in Beijing, we stopped off at the School house in Mutianyu, which is a Western style restaurant and development project which was pretty cool to watch - the food was great. If you get to the wall, it is definitely worth a visit!