Follow the western end of the repaired Great Wall at Badaling up and over a big mountain—a long climb up, and a steep descent from the top.
Way back at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the ‘Dashing King’ and leader of a peasant rebellion, broke through the Great Wall at an obscure pass in the mountains just west of the Badaling Great Wall. He went on through the mountains with his army to Beijing, besieged it, and proclaimed himself Emperor of the new Shun Dynasty.
The pass where the Peasant King broke through is still obscure, reached by doing a U-turn out of one of those long tunnels that go under the mountains and then driving up to the end of a narrow road.
It’s now known as the Badaling Ancient Great Wall, and it has all been repaired and fixed up.
But most visitors here just take a look at the lower two towers and head back, as the Great Wall here gets rather steep.
What we’ll do for this hike is keep going up, and up, and then over and down, then up and over another hill … all the way to Stone Valley Village.
Cost: ¥450 / ¥405 for members
See a full description, more photos, and book online at https://www.beijinghikers.com/hike-in-beijing/view/1633/badaling-ancient-great-wall-2/
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