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Checking for Swine Flu
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View from Hotel Room
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Going for a walk through the Zhongguancun area of Beijing looking for dinner.
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Choosing dishes by pointing
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Chinese cow herder driving bony cows across the road with whip and fork.
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The smog begins to clear
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Our intrepid taxi driver
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The guard towers of the Wall become visible on the mountain skyline.
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Continuing up towards the Great Wall on the "mini train".
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It was a little disquieting to see the mechanism that pulled the mini train up the mountain.
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Continuing to climb up on foot
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FInally we come close to the Great Wall
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The Great Wall at Simatai
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Looking out from Great Wall guard tower
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The Great Wall
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Rugged landscape around the Great Wall
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Looking down from Great Wall at mini-train and cable car below
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The Great Wall
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In places, the Great Wall goes over rock outcrops, incorporating the native rock into its structure.
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Thomas on the Great Wall
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We climbed the Great Wall as it snaked up the ridgeline, and we could hear distant thunder.
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This was as far as we could go on the Great Wall
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Keeping a protective eye on the Great Wall
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The Great Wall snaking along the ridgeline towards the next peak ... and beyond
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The guards in the towers would have had a good vantage, and some nice narrow windows to shoot through.
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Considering how high up the Great Wall is in the mountains, it must have taken an extrordinary amound of labour to haul all the building materials up.
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Me, standing on the Great Wall of China, with distant towers of the Wall behind me
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It seems the Chinese were expecting the Mongol or Manchu hordes to come charging up these slopes towards the mountain ridge.
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Before descending, we take one last look at the Great Wall winding away into the distant haze.
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Thomas looking out as we descend from the Great Wall
