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My Trip to Mainland II
chris lin posted in Personal on June 7th, 2004

Day 2

Beginning our day at 6:30am, my mom and I headed downstairs after cleaning up for buffet style breakfast. I was still tired but it was a good night's sleep since we were placed into their "executive club" rooms for some strange reason. The food was so-so, nothing spectacular worth mentioning. We left for the Great Wall at around 8AM. I learned that it stretched over 6000+ miles and for those who don't know, it is the only man made building that can be seen from space. Before heading there, we stopped by jade shopping area where we learned about jade and were given another hour of shopping time. I cannot stand that, as not everyone wants to shop at every tourist attraction they go to. After everyone bought their little toys and expensive souveniors, we headed toward THE GREAT WALL. When we got their and started going up, it step was literally 4 bricks head and the step was the width of a step. I was surprised no one got injured but all the old folks got tired after reaching the first level/platform. I headed towards the top of the wall up to the point where they got it blocked off and throughout the way I was greeted with people trying to sell me the service of them taking a picture for me at the Great Wall. At the top, the scenery was awesome, if you leaned over the side or just peaked over you could see this stretch from where you came from and how it continues. I took a few pictures here and there but I haven't had time to develop them yet. The trip back down was SCARY since if you look down the steps, you couldn't see the next step. That's what happens when something is designed so long ago, chinese people must of been small or something to think of design something like that. Nothing much for the rest of the day, we ate at the government sponsored restaurant which connected to this government sponsored pottery store. Again, everything was expensive but cheap when compared to our money. After that we went to the Ming tombs, where it was the area that all the emperors were buried during the Ming Dynasty. I expected to see some cool tomb with all these drawings or what not but the tomb did not deliver. After that, we didn't do much, just had dinner and went back to the hotel. Oh ya, we shopped some more. Returned to our executive room around nineish and went straight to sleep. Well I did, I don't know about my mom.