Great Wall Tour -
Panjiakou
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Pajiaokou Great Wall
-Trek to Panjiakou Great Wall with our Great Wall trekking excursions
The Great Wall stretches westward at Xifengkou Pass, winds up Panjiakou Pass
gate and leaps onto the steep mountain. Panjiakou Pass, closely adjoining
Xifengkou Pass as lip and tooth, was attached great importance by the rulers
of the past dynasties. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qing soldiers made an
attack on the capital of the Ming Dynasty by breaking through Panjiakou and
other passes from the side wall of Xifengkou Pass before Qing Dynasty Was
established, which caused a great panic among the rulers and the public.
Panjiakou Pass was called Lulong Fortress in the past. Caocao of East Han
left for the north from here to fight against Wuhuan. " Depth of the frost
and hues on the armor, aged the war-horses are growing. Floating the flames
of battles, still on Lulong Fortress. " These last four lines of the poem "
A song on the Fortress " by Rongyu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty show that
armies always garrisoned this place and wars never ceased. It’s said in the
Song Dynasty, Panjiakou was named after a general named Pan who was
garrisoned here with his family.
The new Panjiakou pass was built during the reign of Jiajing in the Ming
Dynasty, through which the Luan River runs into Panjiakou. It was
strategically important and dangerous with two precipitous rocks standing
strategically on the banks of the river. The nearby walls of different
shapes wind up the ridge. On the mountain over ten watchtowers stand facing
one another and gaze defiantly at the sky.
The Panjiakou reservoir was built by the government in 1976 to draw water
into Tianjin City. The unique spectacle of " the Great Wall under the water
" was created when the water was infused into the reservoit, ran across the
Great Wall and submerged Panjiakou Pass, Xifengkou Pass and nearby walls.
The view of the flickering ancient Great Wall between mountains and blue
waves, the straight isolated watchtowers and beacon towers on the peaks and
the green ranges of hills on the banks can be rated as Three Gorges of the
North China and Li River of the northern Hebei. However, sharp drop of the
reservoir's water level because of drought brought it above the water at the
end of the 20th century. Recently, parts of the Great Wall, which emerged
out of the water, were submerged again due to the ecological improvements
and sufficient rainfall.
Jiangwen, a noted film star filmed a picture named " The Japanese Invaders
Are Coming " at the foot of the ancient Great Wall. The winding Great Wall
and the quiet and beautiful fishing village made it one of the ten most
popular film locations of China.
We are organizing the transport to send you to this
beautiful section of the Great Wall on daily basis.
Register your
Panjiakou tour now.
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