Great Wall, Simatai

After rain on Friday, we woke up to a fresh morning with bright blue skies, and so we decided on the spur of the moment to revisit the Great Wall at Simitai to see it on a clear day. We got our host to negotiate a reasonable price with a taxi driver and set off. It took about 3 hours to get there, because of numerous accidents and traffic jams on the busy road in that direction, and by the time we arrived the skies had clouded over, and it was starting to rain. We began to think that the whole trip was wasted!



However the weather steadily improved, and by the time we had climbed up to the wall there was blue sky again, and spectacular views of the Wall and into the distance.
















Soon after we left it started raining again! The drive back took only just over 2 hours.

Here is a Google Map of where the pictures were taken.