Camping Tour from Gubeikou to jinshanling-simatai

Day By Day Itinerary

Notes:

2-day hiking time is necessary to complete this journey. Backpackers with GWAC will be walking from GuBeiKou to Jinshanling and to Simatai for about ten to eleven hours at your own pace. Most people can finish the walking without a problem, but if you feel you cannot you are encouraged to climb the Wall at only one end of Simatai for about a hour or two.

Itinerary in Details:

Day1

Pick up at your hotel, transfer to the Gubeikou section of the Great Wall, where our two-day hiking on the Wall start. Today we will hike for about 10km and it takes us about 5 hours on the way, if the weather is good you could see Miyun Reservoir and the Wangjing Tower in Simatai Section on the way. There is a military area where hiking on the wall is prohibited, you could have a nice walk into a nearby village and come back onto the Wall in Jinshanling section after the military area. Camping on one of the Watch Tower in Jinshanling Section of the Wall or staying in local family's home.

A nice meal is important to energize your hike for tomorrow. Enjoy the country-style Chinese dinner precooked by the husband of the local family. He used to work as a chef in a hotel by the Great Wall and as far as we know, former guests really loved what he had made for them.

Day 2

If you wake up early enough, you could enjoy a beautiful sun-rise on the Wall. After breakfast, continue to hike east from Jinshanling to Simatai Section of the Wall. Today's hike is a little difficult as the Wall is running up and down the rang of the mountain. Some part of the wall is really steep and broken, be very careful. Picnic lunch in one of the beacon tower, while under the sun is really hot, inside the tower is always cool. A crystal lake at the bottom of the valley will welcome you at the end of the hike in Simatai. Your bus is waiting for you at the parking lot. transfer back to where you start in the City, the end of the two-day hiking tour.