Silk Market in Beijing. This is Katie with our group standing outside the Silk Market at 9pm on Friday, when it closes.
Great Wall- Katie's toboggan- This is the beginning of the toboggan ride down the mountain. It went super fast after a while. They have workers at certain checkpoints to yell at you to slow down, in English. Notice the bridge in the background of the picture. That is part of the toboggan ride. Katie thought that was the scariest part. Bruce didn't remember going over the bridge...
Great Wall- Cable Car- This is what we took to ride from the base up to the Great Wall (Instead of hiking for an hour on the mountain, we hiked for an hour on the Wall.)
A girl in our group, Michaela, standing up on an abandoned section of the Wall. Even though it doesn't have me or Katie in it, I think it is one of the cooler pictures that we took.
Great Wall- I climbed off the wall and took a picture of Katie poking her head out over the edge so you could see about how tall it is. It would definitely keep the Mongols from getting horses across the border very easily. I'd say it's about 30 feet tall. Our guess is also that those huge bricks at the bottom are from the original wall, while the smaller bricks at the top might be from more recent restoration efforts.
Huge Guard Tower- This is probably the largest guard tower we explored before we hiked up the section of the wall in the background of the picture.
Great Wall Town- This is the town where the people live who work at this section of the wall. In the bottom left of the picture you can see a birdcage with a small bird in it.
Great Wall Entrance- This is at the base of the Mountain. On the left you can see the window with the sign that says, "Toboggan Run Ticket Office." That is where we went.
Great Wall- Little Shops- This is where we bought the panda nesting dolls. Our lead teacher's husband, Sam, bought a cowboy hat that says, "The Great Wall." It was pretty funny. That is Bruce's head in the corner of the picture.
