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Photo: Members from Japan, Canada and Spain
had a great time in Simatai. Since
2000, over 1,000 international backpackers have hiked the Great Wall by joining the
famous
Adventure Club for breath-taking Great Wall one-day tour.
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video about Simatai Great Wall
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Great Wall Adventure
Hall of Fame |
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pictures
of our Hall of Famers, and listen to their
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"Appealing for its
exploration potential, diverse architecture, and steepness, Simatai and Jinshanling contrast
sharply with Badaling and Mutianyu in their less-crowded and crumbling condition."
– The National Geographic, USA
"It's worth it to see the
Wall all natural, in contrast to the
heavily-touristed Badaling and Mutianyu sections, which are so well restored they could have
been built yesterday."
– The Time
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YOUR VEHICLES
Mini Vans to pick you up from your hotel and bring you back!
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programs from here!
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highest standards of performance.
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 The Great Wall Adventure Club (GWAC)
WHO WE AREThe 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 expands to become a
full-service travel agent, offering full packages of China
tour service including hotel accommodation, domestic transport 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.
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HIKING
PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHTS
 Back
to the old days of China
See how
our teams enjoy their
hiking (photos from our
Hall of Fame) ,
listen to their
testimonials
and
reserve your tour today!
Welcome to the Great Wall of
China! When you visit Beijing, you GOT 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 must be a
huge regret if you miss
the
amazing experience of hiking the Wall in your life.
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 proper.
One of the least developed (for now) is
Simatai (pictures), and it's not
for the faint-hearted. The 19 km (12 mi) section is very steep, with a few
slopes built at a 70-degree incline but it's worth it to see the Wall all
natural, in contrast to the heavily-visited Badaling and Mutianyu
sections, which are so well restored they could have been built yesterday
- Gubeikou and
Jinshanling (pictures) are another two sections
which are also very original. WE TAKE YOU THERE!
The Great Wall Adventure Club is committed to environmental
sustainability and history education.
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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 8:00 in the morning and we'll
return to Beijing at 5:30 in the evening. Therefore, it is about a
whole-day excursion to the spectacular unrestored sections of
500-year-old mountain-top Wall: quieter and further from Beijing but
wild and challenging.
See
where Jinshanling and
Simatai are located and why they are
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 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 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 alternative tour to Juyongguan Section of the Great Wall. It's
less challenging to walk on Juyongguan.
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
hassles!
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 participate the hiking. No matter you are
staying in economy hotels
or 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.
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