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Badaling’s northern Great Wall in early winter, 2025
A November climb from North Tower One towards North Tower Eleven, with the journey there, three ways up, windy battlements and a bus ride home.
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From Tiananmen to the Forbidden City: summer 2015
A father and daughter’s summer visit, from an early flag-raising at Tiananmen Square through palace courtyards to the moat outside the northern gate.
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Summer Palace, Kunming Lake and an evening at Deyunshe, 2023
A family day from the north gate through Suzhou Street, the Long Corridor, Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake’s Western Dyke, ending with an evening crosstalk show.