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The Great Wall (长城) was started in the 3rd century B.C, and was extended and rebuilt over the next several hundred years. This is the Great Wall at Badaling (八达岭), the most oft-visited, hence the most restored, part of the Wall. Here you can see the huge parking lot for the hundreds of tour buses that come each week.

I came here in 1993 and climbed to the farthest and highest point you can here, and you can see it still snaking over the hills for miles and miles. My friend and I then ran back down, and he tripped and skinned up his knees pretty badly. The Chinese have an expression, "if you've not been to the Great Wall, you're not a real man" (不到长城非好汉). I wonder what they would say in this case?