the doors were about to be open...

and another dream would be fulfilled...

beijing duck...

in the best kept secret in town...

10km... 4h trekking...

walk... walk...
climb... climb...
many steps up...
many steps down...
countless years of man history...

sometimes you couldn't see nothing but the beginning...
sometimes you couldn't see anything but the end...
just go forward...
but always look back...
what a unforgettable day...
a dream that just became true...
and what a beautiful dream it is...

there she was on the horizon...

and like a love affair...
just flyyyy... to get near her faster...

The Great Wall of China...

...is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks during various successive dynasties. Since the 5th century BC, several walls have been built that were referred to as the Great Wall. One of the most famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains; it lay farther north than the current wall, which was built during the Ming Dynasty. The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles) from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total; a more recent archaeological survey using advanced technologies points out that the entire Great Wall, with all of its branches, stretches for 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi). At its peak, the Ming Wall was guarded by more than one million men. It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part of the centuries-long project of building the wall.

text from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China

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