The Great Wall

China is the third largest country of the world situated at the eastern part of Eurasia and the western coast of the Pacific Ocean. Total land area is 3,706,581 square miles (9,600,000 square kilometers).

China is an ancient country having a profound history. Among them Great wall is China’s most beautiful architecture. The Great Wall is the largest manmade cultural relics in the world. The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against disturbances by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. It passes 156 counties in ten cities or provinces including Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai. The wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. The Great Wall is composed of 723 beacon towers, 7,062 lookout towers, 3,357 wall platforms and 1,026 other ruins. The Great Wall of China is 25 feet high in some places and ranges from 15-30 feet wide. It is 8,851.8 km (5,500 miles) long from Hushan Great Wall in Liaoning and Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu. The wall in Beijing measures over 550 km (342 miles) long. During its construction, the Great Wall was called “the longest cemetery on earth” because so many people died building it. Reportedly, it cost the lives of more than one million people.

The most visited section of the Great Wall is in Badaling, close to Beijing, which was built during the Ming Dynasty. It was the first section of the wall to open to tourists in 1957. The Great Wall offers a timeless charm to tourists, but scenery varies with seasons. Visit it in different time you will get a quite different scene. In spring, when trees and plants begin to turn green, the wall wonders among the lush vegetation. Everything looks so fresh. It is a good time to avoid the crowd tourists in summer and autumn. Summer comes, the booming flowers and colored leaves cover the mountains. The Great Wall snakes its way like a silver necklace. What a nice sight! When fall comes, the mountains are blanketed by colors, creating an amazing view and the weather during this time is pleasant. This season could be the best season to visit. The mountains and the wall itself are covered with snow in winter, offering an awesome snowy scene. The weather in this time of the year will be frozenly cold and tourists are fewer. It is the best time to get the whole view of the wall. Visit the Great wall at your convenient time.