Our first seventh wonder of the world experince

As we had researched a bit into seeing the Great Wall. We knew we wanted to explore some new, some old and some just down right crumbly. So we chose to be transported to a section of the wall called jinshanling. this section of the wall was built from 1570 BC during the Ming Dynasty.

Paying 260 yuan per person which is the equivalent to 29 pounds each including 6 hour coach drive, lunch and the wall. We got up pretty early (for us sleepy heads) for our first wonder of the world experience.

As the wall was quite far out from any town I got my first feel of the true Chinese public toilet experience. Now if you know me well you know I'm not a shy person and bodily functions don't worry me much but I have to say I did get a touch staged fright crouching down with my fellow coach acquaintance side by side mind you (no wall or door) trying to aim my waste into a troff like line in the floor. If I was urinating I wouldn't of battered an eyelid but movements so early in the morning cause something abit more solid. Enough said.


So we arrive at the wall, still trying to come to terms that a girl doing the same trek with me knew what I had for dinner last night, we look up to our long journey and giant steps up to the wall.

Once we got to the top huffing and puffing we was welcomed by the beauty of the wall. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century bc.

The wall finally came together in 220–206 bce by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China but little of that remains. It was said that the workers who built it died from exhaustion and many bodies are buried inside the walls.

The Chinese have a love story about the wall. It's about a newly

married wife coming to find her husband who forced to work on the wall. She had heard nothing of his where abouts for a long while. So she trekked for days to the wall to find out what happened to him. When she arrived she was told he died of exhaustion. She cried for days by the wall he was said to be buried in. The wall then collapsed revealing many husbands bodies. The wife saw her lovers and took him home for a respectful burial.

Peking duck

Assuming we all know the classic crispy, dry as fuck duck that you douse in plum sauce so you don't shred your mouth pancakes. We all enjoy the preparation, the rolling with the fingers. Seeing how well you are at choosing the appropriate cucumber and meaty amount that will fill it before it rips and explodes tiny shredded pieces onto your lap. Well you thought that was enjoyable. Try the real deal. It's

more like a pork belly dish. Wonderful juicy meat that is incredibly well carved using a super sharp knife and chopsticks, not shredded barbarically. Then there's the skin. Like crackling but covered in a sweet honey like sauce. If that's not sweet enough you take your chopsticks and awkwardly dip in a super fine sugar then plop it into your mouth so it dissolves in seconds. Honestly, it was so pleasurable I didn't talk for about 10 mins and that's alot for me. We sat in silence enjoying this incredible indulgent experience. Then making up for the lack of entertaining each other we were shown to make our duck pancakes with chopsticks. I think our attempts produced more food onto the floor then in our mouths.