【Dec 1】Huangyaguan GreatWall-Longest Restored Section

Escape from the crowded Great Wall sections in Beijing to find a peaceful moment in Huangyaguan Great Wall. Taking this full day Great Wal Tour, you will see the less crowded Great Wall of China when you come here, the palce for the International Field Marathon. You can experience the different Great Wall hiking experience. 

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 Huangyaguan Great Wall

We will pick you up at meeting point in the morning according to the schedule. The bus drive will take 2 hours if no traffic jam and we will arrive at around 10:00. 

We’ll first explore the fortress, taking a look at the museum and then finding our way through the maze and up on to the Great Wall.

Huangyaguan Great Wall was originally built in the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-557), and expanded by General Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It is praised as a miniature of the Great Wall of China as you can find features of many other sections of Great Wall - "strong" of Badaling, "steep" of Jiankou, "ancient" of Gubekou, and relatively less-crowded

You can enjoy two to three hours on the wall independently. Absorb its history and mountain scenery.

After bisit, then we will head back to the bus and back to Beijing. 

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Huangyaguan Great Wall is considered to be a miniature of the Great Wall of China. In this section, you can find the stone base built in the Northern Qi Dynasty (550 - 557) and the brick battlements laid in the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). Watchtowers there are either solid or hollow, and have different shapes, including round ones and square ones. Outside, you may see independent outposts a few meters away from each other; inside, there are also ramparts to reinforce the defense system.

Basic Facts of Huangyaguan Great Wall

Huangyaguan Pass was first built during the Northern Qi Dynasty and repaired extensively during the Ming Dynasty under the supervision of Qi Jiguang, a renowned general of that time.

Stretching 42 kilometers (26 miles) from the General Pass in Beijing to Malan Pass in Hebei, there used to be 52 watchtowers and 14 beacon towers in total. However, most of this part of the wall has collapsed due to lack of renovation. Starting from 1984, people spent three years repairing 3,025 meters (3,308 yards) of the wall and 20 watchtowers.

Because the cliff rocks to the east of the pass are mostly yellow and they look gilded at the sunset, the pass got its name Huangya (Yellow Cliff) Pass.

The Pass of Huangyaguan

Surrounded by abrupt mountains, Huangya Pass is one of the most important passes with barbicans, turrets, emplacements, barracks and other indispensable military facilities orderly arranged. Within the pass, more than 40 crisscrossing streets form the shape of the Eight Diagram, which gives the pass a nickname, Eight Diagram Fortification City. In the center of the Eight Diagram Street block is the Huangyaguan Great Wall Museum, which used to be the Dispatcher's Office in the Ming Dynasty. Here, you can have a look of the weapons and daily necessities used by soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Besides the constructional sites, you can also feel the cultural atmosphere by viewing poems inscribed in the Stele Forests and couplets carved on the bamboo strips in the Couplet Hall.