A significant amount of time on my second day in China was spent doing homework. This may sound unglamorous, and such is life when you’re traveling with a purpose in mind. The morning and early afternoon were spent sitting in a Starbucks (are you even remotely surprised) writing up my case for the Service Marketing class I will take later this week.
When Laura got back from her Chinese language class we headed out to lunch at a local restaurant and then we headed to Tiananmen Square for a bit of being shameless tourists. I added pictures from Day 2 to this page: China Trip, Days 1 and 2.
Today I hired a car and driver to head to some of the sites outside of the city. I took a visit to the tombs of the Ming Emperors. This was a good foray outside of the city, and the site was worth the visit.
The BIG item for the day today was a visit to the Great Wall of China. All I can say is that several people back in the states are lucky that I had no mobile phone service at the Great Wall. Time difference or no, several people would have received a “Guess where I’m calling you from! The Great f’ing Wall of China!” The Mutianyu section of the wall was not very crowded at all. The weather was a little overcast, but nice and cool. I spent a good amount of time walking along the wall, climbing up steep climbs and trying not to fall down them. I don’t think any of the pictures I took could ever capture the real scope of what it’s like to stand on the Great Wall and look out in all directions and just see this feat of engineering undulating (is that the right word?) along the mountains.
Pictures from the Ming Tombs and Great wall are here: Ming Tomb & Great Wall.
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