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Great Wall Hiking and Touring Programs
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to the old days of China
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hiking (photos from our
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,
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today!
Welcome to the Great Wall of China! When you visit Beijing,
you HAVE TO tour the Great Wall. "You are not a man of courage
if you do not climb the
Great Wall!"
as a Chinese popular saying tells the world. It will be
your biggest regret if you miss the amazing experience of
hiking the Wall during your lifetime.
There are a number of
Great Wall sections
in Beijing that you can tour. However, while the tourist
masses tend to head for
Badaling to grope
the Great Wall, there are more challenging stretches of
this historical and architectural marvel within an easy
day-trip from Beijing citylimits. One of the least developed
(for now) is Simatai
(pictures), and it's not for everyone. The 19 km (12 mi)
section is very steep, with a few slopes built at a 70-degree
incline but worth the visit as you will see the Wall in
its natural state, whereas the heavily-visited Badaling
and Mutianyu sections which are well restored they could
have been built yesterday -
Gubeikou and
Jinshanling
(pictures) are other sections which are very original.
WE TAKE YOU THERE!
Enjoying high reputation we earned from serving worldwide
tourists with many applauds, our featured program is quoted
by an About.com editor on "What
to see in Beijing" page about
Jinshanlin and Simatai Great Wall hiking.
The Great Wall Adventure Club is committed to environmental
sustainability and historical education.
Program
1: One-day Jinshanling-Simatai
tour summary
 Hikers
with Great Wall Adventure Club will be walking from
Jinshanling to
Simatai for about three to
four hours at your own pace. We normally leave at 7-8:00
in the morning and we'll return to Beijing between 5:30
to 7:30 in the evening. Therefore, it is about a whole-day
excursion to the spectacular un-restored sections of 500-year-old
mountain-top Wall: quieter and further from Beijing but
wild and challenging.
Private tour
and non-private group tours are available.
See
where Jinshanling and
Simatai are located and why you
can't miss it!.
Program
2: Two-day
Jinshanling-Simatai
tour and camping
summary
 People
who wish to hike longer over the Wall and stay overnight
in a camp can participate in our
2-day
camping plan that starts from
Gubeikou to
Simatai through
Jinshanling.
The 2-day camping on the Wall is available during the summer.
In late fall and winter, hikers can stay overnight
with a local host family. See details of this
new
thrilling 2-day-long adventure program.
See
where Jinshanling and
Simatai are located.
Program
3:
Seven-day
Jinshanling-Simatai
tour summary
 Recently,
we have added a 7-day Great Wall camping tour. In this tour,
we will start from the Old Dragon Head in Hebei province,
the eastern starting point of the Ten-thousand-li Great
Wall, to Huangyaguan Pass in Tianjin, and trek on to
Simatai,
Jinshanling and Gubeikou in
Beijing. The sections of the Wall you will visit are typical
in architecture, scenery, wildness, and military importance.
See
where Jinshanling and
Simatai are located.
Program
4:
Alternative tours to
Juyongguan, Mutianyu or Badaling
summary
 This
tour is designed for those who wish to tour the most popular
Juyongguan, Mutianyu or Badaling sections of the Great Wall.
These sections are closer to downtown Beijing, so the tour
usually can be combined with another tourist attraction.
Elderly-aged people are encouraged to take the alternative
tour to Juyongguan
Section of the Great Wall. It's less challenging to walk
on Juyongguan.
Program
5: Beijing
Daily Bus Tours to Major City Attractions
 Got
very tight schedule with your visit to Beijing?
The Great Wall Adventure Club offers
Daily Bus Tours to major attractions of Beijing. Our exceptional
design of tour routes have been optimized for busy international
tourists. At very competitive rates and with no compromise
to quality, our bus tours of small groups have taken over
7,000 tourists to Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, Lama Temple,
Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Forbidden City, Hutong, and newly
added the 2008 Beijing Olympics sites such as the Bird's
Nest and Water Cub.
FYI: Transportation to Simatai and Jinshanling
How to get to the Wall? No direct transportation can take
you to
Jinshanling and
Simatai, unless you wish to pay expensive taxi
charges. There are tour buses to the Badaling section, but
that is not the place you should go to for thrills. The
Great Wall Adventure Club (GWAC) offers group transportation
to send members to the Wall and bring them back. Members
take convenient shuttle mini-bus or medium-bus from where
they stay. So there is no early morning scrambling trying
to catch a bus across town. The cost is minimal and you
save lots of time and hassle!
We pick you up at your residence in Beijing.
The bus will first take you to and drop you off in Jinshanling,
and in late afternoon, it will pick you up in Simatai and
bring you back to Beijing. Tourists living in any hotel
or hostel in Beijing can join our hiking group. No matter
you if you are staying at an economy hotel or at a 5-star
Marriott, you'll find your fellow hikers from all over the
world. What a fun! What a joy! You just need to show up
in our departure stations on time.
WHO WE ARE
The Great Wall Adventure Club (GWAC) was established in
Beijing and Xi'an in 1992. In the past 15 years, we have
helped over 7,500 members from 55 countries to enjoy their
tours to China including our highly-branded Great Wall hiking
tour and adventure tours to remote areas of China such as
Tibet, Yangtze River and Yunan. Since the Club was acquired
in 2001 by North America Commerce International Co. (NACI
Group), a multi-national communication service and marketing
company based in San Jose, California and Dallas, Texas,
our Club quickly expanded to become a full-service travel
agent, offering full packages of China tour service including
hotel accommodation, domestic transportion and sightseeing
across China.
In Beijing, GWAC also manages
The Beijing
Smart Bridge Country Club and Conference Center,
a huge entertainment complex of 4-star hotel rooms and suites,
outdoor sports and entertainment facilities including tennis
court, basketball court, bowling hall, billiards room, KTV
suites, swimming pool, sauna and spas, ping-pong and game
rooms, counter-strike field, fishing, rock-climbing, a small
zoo of dogs, etc. Restaurants at the Country Club serve
all organic vegetables, eggs and chicken meat.
Entering 2008, GWAC opened her joint office
with one of oldest China travel and tour agent in New York
City - AG International Travel and Tours. AG will represent
Great Wall Adventure Club to serve their existing clients
and new clients who look for high-quality China tour packages.
 The
GWAC 2008 Olympic reception was an extremely successful
operation to assist hundreds of family members and friends
of international athletes with their game watch and sightseeing
in Beijing and China. Our trip planners and tour guides
have received big applauds from our guests including American
softball group,
British swimming group, Canadian canoeing families and those
from Australia, New Zealand, Russia and Singapore.
Staff from NBC Beijing also hired the Club
for their Great Wall hike and tour with our special arrangement
out of their busy work schedule.
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