Day 7: Great Wall of China
April 9th, 2009 by Dylan
On Sunday, I again took the Beijing Subway to meet up with Eric and Michael, who took me to see the Great Wall. Nothing that I have seen really comes close to the Great Wall except for some of the architecture in Rome, but the size and scope of the Wall is astounding. We visited the Badaling section and walked for several hours:
No attraction in Asia is complete without its own Starbucks:
Because it was a holiday weekend, the Wall was packed, but it was still an incredible experience. We were going to stop at the Tombs on the way back to Beijing, but skipped it due to extra crowds. Instead we had Hot Top for lunch, much like Shabu Shabu, but much much better than anything I’ve ever had in the US:
After returning, I had a Dojo dinner with a few local open source advocates, and then stopped for a snack at a local coffee shop. The area where I was staying, Wudaokou, is near a number of universities, and feels like Venice Beach without the beach, meets college town. A lot of tech companies (Google, Microsoft, VMWare, etc.) have set up offices in this area.
