We Visited The GREAT WALL OF CHINA! 🇨🇳 (Wonder Of The World)

good morning everyone, here from beijing china once again. in this video we're going to be finally visiting the great wall of china, one of the seven wonders of the world. and this is probably the attraction that we wanted to visit the most during our stay here in beijing. and it's going to be our sixth wonder of the world, so the only one that will be remaining is the coliseum in rome, which hopefully we're able to visit soon too. and we booked the day trip on get your guide which we'll link below. it's $35 per person and that includes the transport there, some food and also the entry fee to the wall. but once we're there we're free to roam around, we don't have to follow a tour or be with a group of people, and i think we have many hours there so yeah we prefer that kind of tour. and the pickup spot isn't too far from the hotel that we're staying in so we're just going to get a taxi to that point now and then we'll begin the day. so we've arrived at the entrance where we're gonna start the trekking on the great wall of china visibility is really poor though, just like it was in the center of beijing. so these mountains aren't even that far but there's this smog or something, just like we got in beijing so can't really see that well. i think the wall is actually on top of those. is that pollution then? i don't know what it is. yeah i'm not sure but maybe it is pollution or maybe mixed with some something else, i don't know. but it's a shame that it's not like perfect, the perfect weather but i think it's still going to be enjoyable. yeah so i think first we're actually already going to have the lunch that's included, the buffet, and then we'll start doing the hiking the walking. got some cool statues here, kind of looks like that terracotta army that i've seen in pictures where you get loads of the statues. won't be visiting that on this trip, pretty sure they look like this though. so the buffet is looking really good, a huge selection of different things sweet vegetables for carol, i think all my meat's on the other side. so i ended up going for the chinese noodles, sweet potato, also got these chinese buns that have bean paste inside just like we ate in japan and this is all different kinds of chicken. carol got the veggies is that tofu? yeah spicy tofu and also the noodles and a lot of veggies and french fries and that's egg isn't it? yeah and seaweed. yeah and then we got some teas that are also included so this is a pretty good map, there's two directions that you can go, you can go either east or west or you can do both which we're gonna do and it's 140 for each one so it'll be 280 per person and that's because it includes a cable car and i think one even has a toboggan on the way down yeah it's gonna be fun. yeah fun ride on the way down. so can already see from here where one of the cable car takes you up there, you can actually walk up but obviously you're gonna lose a lot of time and the guide said it's not actually that scenic so best just spend all your time at the top of the wall. so first we're gonna do the east side, i think this is where we enter. cool thing here is that a lot of the places you just have to show your passport, it's all registered on your passport so you don't need like separate tickets but for the toboggan we need to show the physical tickets. yeah this is pretty old school. yeah not really that smooth. we went in one in brazil like this. ah check out the toboggan track. yeah i can't wait to do that. yeah i think this is the toboggan i think that's how they bring them up. ah okay these on the back. yeah. yeah that makes sense all right so we're here, the great wall of china, pretty crazy. oh look at the views from here i think we're gonna walk all the way up to that one up there, the tower. so like i said it is very hazy today but i can kind of see the wall going around there and up there too must dip down. wow it's unbelievable that we are here. so i think this is already one of the towers that you can go in, i didn't even know there were areas that you could go indoor so we're at the top of that tower, there's actually stairs that go up even further that way man look at the size of those mountains in the background, even without the wall it would have been hard to invade here anyway because of the terrain that we're on, the mountainous terrain how the hell did they build this up there? yeah it's crazy and just think how big it is, i mean how long it goes, just crazy. yeah i'll write down here how long it is, i read that it would take like a year and a half of walking to complete the entire wall if you're just going like every day so it is absolutely gigantic, we're just on a very very tiny section, are you prepared for that? the not so fun part. the stair master. man that's like real steep, you probably can't tell on the gopro how steep it is, the steps. some other entrance down there some of the parts are so steep you gotta like crawl up so this is considered to be the most preserved part of the great wall of china, built during the ming dynasty around the 1300s to 1600s. there's many other parts of the wall that are basically pretty much destroyed, not in good condition like this one. yeah i need to not talk to the camera when i'm walking up. i don't know how people do their marathon here. really? yeah there's a marathon i don't know how they run on this like crazy terrain and steps. it's so humid here as well i think it's around 27 degrees, everyone's a sweaty mess that's walking up here including us. i think this is as far as we're going on this side, this tower. yeah so you can't even go beyond this tower because they've closed the wall off here, this would have been the doorway this is the undeveloped segment of the great wall, no crossing. yeah so i guess nobody walks on this i don't think we can even go upstairs can we? i don't think so. no i don't see any steps or anything to that floor. so i mentioned that this section was made around the 1300s to 1600s but there are sections of the great wall of china that go back to 7th century bc before christ so way way way older. but i read that the parts that were here from like the 7th century bc they weren't made to be the great wall of china, that's when there were different kingdoms within china. it would have been more of like a fortification around one of the cities and then they just used some of that wall to join to this wall, the great wall. man so this is the part that i said we were crawling up there's literally a guy crawling down. the guides did say at some parts it's actually easier to go up than down. i'm finding it a lot easier going down though all right now it's time for the toboggan. tobogganing is so simple so just forward forward, backwards to brake. sounds simple enough all right i think we have to brake here first, this guy's letting us through ready for bumper cars carol? no. setting the rules you're not allowed so you're lucky. all right off we go whoa speed up carol, speed up. they wish they had this during the ming dynasty they'd be jealous. it's a quick way down. that's the fastest curve so far brake. yeah it seems to get even steeper at the end. i'm not mad go quicker carol. yeah there ain't no way that people don't keep bumping into each other here. so the guy said it's like seven to ten minutes overall so it's a long fun ride. enjoy that carol i wish the other side had the toboggan too so we could do it again but i think it's only the cable car. so there is a completely different region of the great wall that people visit that's a lot more popular and touristy than this one. i think a lot of the chinese go to the other one and yeah from what we've seen it's really not that busy at all is it? no not, it's a big area as well there are many tourist groups and stuff but you don't feel like super crowded. all right this time it's a modern cable car. yeah so the other part the guy said it would take around 40 minutes round trip and we did the walking pretty quick i think that took like 20-25 minutes but then we had to queue up a long time for the toboggan so that reduced our time at this place. i think we still have like two and a half hours though but it's a lot more walking here so we'll have to see how far we get. i think we can probably make it right? yeah we'll see when we get there yeah we'll see how far we can go. yeah so we've just arrived here and i think the goal is to get to the highest one up there if we have enough time, multiple towers. we were down here before yeah we passed through here and we went up to this point. and these were the ones that weren't allowed to access? yeah. okay so is that where we gotta go carol? maybe once intended to ward off enemy attacks today it brings together the peoples of the world the great wall may it continue to act as a symbol of friendship for future generations. so you can see here they're doing some restorations, the wall's completely collapsed on this side over there too, i don't know if that was recent. and there is a part of the wall at the end that's supposed to be really difficult and the famous leader mao zedong said that you're only a real man if you do that part right? yeah. so today we're gonna become real men. yeah i'm gonna become a real man. no way we got some cats, the great wall cats fighting. the cats are still keeping the fighting spirit going at the great wall. no longer humans. didn't the guy say that some films have been filmed here at this section? yes i think kung fu panda which is a cartoon so maybe it was just inspired by this place and the other one was transformers. yeah this really is epic. imagine the guys that walked the whole thing, year and a half. so obviously this wall was used for defense of china but it was also to control things like immigration, people coming in and out of china and also to manage the goods, the imports and exports going out of china. carol i think now it's time for the real man part. oh my god, i hope that's gonna be a workout. definitely gonna have sore legs tomorrow. it's one of the best viewpoints from here too, really is completely wild here i don't even think there's any like villages or anything on this side and it's the final stairs now, the steepest part so i looked at the stairs and i thought we would have to go more but no this is the end. yeah this part is also blocked off, not developed yet real man. yeah 10 minutes. 10 minutes? yeah. oh the last part. so we use the translator app this says hero platform, the great wall tianyu. it's rainy. oh really? oh yeah maybe we should go back then so it is the next day now, we ended up getting back late from the tour, it was all dark and right now we're at the central business district of beijing. so far we've only been seeing the old historic places, wanted to see the modern places too which beijing is full of, the mega buildings and we stopped at one of the most iconic spots which is of this building here which i've seen pictures of before, that is the cctv headquarters which is the central china television headquarters and then back there is the tallest building in beijing, i think it's over 500 meters high, a kind of new building. yeah that looks really cool though, super futuristic looking. kao said this reminded her of bgc. yeah in philippines in manila but i think this is bigger but it's kind of similar because it has many green areas as well and very big buildings and modern. yeah bgc really did look like this. so we're just gonna walk around here for a few hours it is our final day today here in beijing anyway, not in china though. wonder what that is, china world some underground, don't know if that's like a subway, we haven't been on the subway or anything yet just been getting taxis around. taxis are quite affordable aren't they? yeah it's really affordable and it's like a big difference compared to japan because in japan the taxis were super expensive but here it's just really affordable. so that thing where we saw china world i think it's because the building that we stopped at is actually the china world trade center, this building here. one thing you might notice as well is lots of people cycle around in beijing, it's a bit like japan in that aspect. so you see people on the bikes everywhere like these guys here but it looks like there's the big starbucks there. actually there's the western chains everywhere isn't there from what we've seen? yeah yeah like even like stores like the fancy stores like gucci and i don't know grada, restaurants as well, mcdonald's and everything just like we find in other asian countries as well. so it is a saturday today so since this is the business district it's obviously going to be way less busy, emptier, not many people working. some of the mega hotels, kerry hotel beijing. i think this area around here also has the majority of the embassies too, i think further down there where we're going to be heading around a park. so we just come into this mall trying to find a place to eat, shake shack. it's like a burger chain isn't it? yeah i think they have vegetarian burger. shroom burger. so luckily they have this little thing here, we can select food beverages put it in english and then it shows all the restaurants on the different floors try and find something chinese, this one lao ding feng, chinese traditional food what level is that? level five. want to go there then? yeah let's do it. so we ended up finding a different restaurant because we don't know where the other one is, i don't know the name of this one. it's all in chinese on the front of the menu but they have the english translations here also nice because they have the big photos of what the dishes look like. so yeah i'm getting this glutinous rice cake 23. i'm also getting this streaky pork with layers of fat and lean tasty and tender flavor 59. carol's going for this one, roast enshi potatoes 49. i'm not sure what the portions are going to be like. the other restaurants had some crazy prices didn't they? yeah i think since this is like a more upscale mall the prices are very expensive but this one wasn't as as high as the other ones that we were checking. yeah we are in the world trade center building so it's expected to be expensive. we also got this that seems to be like a edamame, stir-fry bean with spicy sauce 29. let's see how this is. yeah i think it's different than the japanese one yeah it's different, very spicy. everything here is very spicy. yeah they like the spice don't they? i didn't even know china was so into spicy food but we've had some extremely spicy dishes we even had one where we said little and our stomachs were hurting later on that's so spicy. have you had this thing? it's really good as well, very spicy. also and these are my glutinous rice pancakes, also pretty good size i thought it was going to be smaller because of the price. something in there like a sweet thing, seems a bit like a dessert maybe it is. they're really tasty though whatever that sweet thing is. wow and look at this, certainly never had a pork dish like this before. seems to be wrapped in a leaf, cooked in a leaf i guess i don't even know where to start, am i supposed to remove the leaf? it's really steamy inside try and get a bit like stringy piece of fat i'm not sure. yeah it definitely was fat yeah i really like that. some amazing sauce on there. i think they got like a carrot in there too it turns out it was cool that we came here. yeah better than shake shack. shake shack yeah better than that burger. oh man yeah i'm loving this dish, this might actually be the best thing that i've had in china so far. so i said carrots but it's actually sweet potato inside, that's sweet potato. even better because i like sweet potatoes more than carrots. struggling with the yeah like a runny nose. it's very hot. yeah spice can have that reaction, runny nose, watery eyes so that's going to be it for this video, we were planning on going to a park that's near our hotel but then it was raining quite heavy when we got out of the mall. you can actually see the park from here it's where all these trees are, you can even see the business district that's the tallest building in beijing over there so we're not too far away and definitely enjoyed our stay in beijing overall. it was four days, we got the visa on arrival that gives you 144 hours in the city which would be six days in total but we stayed here for four days and tomorrow we're going to macau, going to be spending a few days there and then we'll visit shanghai and then that'll be it just for this trip in china for now. so if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us, subscribe to see more videos like this, follow us on instagram and we'll see in the next one