ride on the great wall

[billeuze]

probably not supposed to do this, but... I couldn't resist.






The exact location where I mounted the wall is Lat 40.25891, Lon 115.79382 or right in the center of this map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/40.2589/115.7938

Here are maps from gps track on my phone, progressively zoomed out. On the last frame you can see I started the trip from Yanqing town, Yanqing county, Beijing. Looks like about 40 KM from Yanqing. You can approach it also from the Beijing side.




From the Yanqing side it is nice twisty roads with no traffic. just before the turn-off to Dayingpan village. Here's the turn-off sign:


You can stop and see the wall a number of places between this sign and the village. Then the paved road ends at the end of the village and continues on a dirt track - note deep ruts in the dirt track, not really great (but passable) on a street bike. Where I got up on the wall is on a little trail that branches off of the dirt road - that trail sort of peters out as it approaches the wall, but, even with a street bike, you can drive right up.