A friend contaced me about setting up a trip to the great wall. Maybe you guys are able to help?
What I want to do is plan a trip to China primarily to walk on the Great Wall for anywhere between 3 - 6 days............. visiting the sections with the most spectacular scenery and are accessible without any (or at least the very minimum of) beauraucratic run-around.
I'm willing to piece it together in any of a number of ways; ie. 3, 4, 5 or 6 trips of 1 day each; 3 trips of 2 days each; 3 trips - 3 days for 1 trip, 2 days for another trip, 1 day for another. You get the idea - maximum flexibility.
So to my way of thinking I need to determine what's the best city to fly into...Beijing probably. Then I need to string together a few trips that might either be run by a touring agency, sponsored by the Chinese government or whatever is best. If i'm going to visit the wall from more than one location then I need to know how to make the transportation arrangements locally. What I definitely want to avoid is getting stuck in major metropolitan areas for any lenght of time.......just what's needed to get to a train station, bus station, or airport....and get out of town fast. I don't want to sightsee the cities, I want to sightsee the Chinese wilderness. I'm probably only going to get one shot to do this and it won't be for an extended period of time - 10 to 15 days max - so I have to make the time really count.
Any help you can give to steer me in the right direction will be greatly appreciated. Maybe the most effecient way of doing this kind of trip is to go thriugh a travel agency that specializes in this kind of thing. But to be honest with you there is something about doing a solo run that I really prefer if that's possible.
I'm willing to piece it together in any of a number of ways; ie. 3, 4, 5 or 6 trips of 1 day each; 3 trips of 2 days each; 3 trips - 3 days for 1 trip, 2 days for another trip, 1 day for another. You get the idea - maximum flexibility.
So to my way of thinking I need to determine what's the best city to fly into...Beijing probably. Then I need to string together a few trips that might either be run by a touring agency, sponsored by the Chinese government or whatever is best. If i'm going to visit the wall from more than one location then I need to know how to make the transportation arrangements locally. What I definitely want to avoid is getting stuck in major metropolitan areas for any lenght of time.......just what's needed to get to a train station, bus station, or airport....and get out of town fast. I don't want to sightsee the cities, I want to sightsee the Chinese wilderness. I'm probably only going to get one shot to do this and it won't be for an extended period of time - 10 to 15 days max - so I have to make the time really count.
Any help you can give to steer me in the right direction will be greatly appreciated. Maybe the most effecient way of doing this kind of trip is to go thriugh a travel agency that specializes in this kind of thing. But to be honest with you there is something about doing a solo run that I really prefer if that's possible.
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