Looking South across He Xi Cun, from the Gubeikou section of the Great Wall of China.
I've failed to find a programme on this laptop with which I can scribble on the photo, so I shall try to describe where we are. Draw a verticle line about a quarter of the way from left to right. Move up the line from the bottom of the photo and our house is where the line first hits the village i.e. we are on the northern edge of He Xi Cun. Between the Gubeikou Great Wall and the village on this side is the railway line (between Beijing and Inner Mongolia) and between the village and the mountains to the east is a large river, the Chao He.
The village of He Xi is 120km northeast of Beijing (right on the border of Beijing Municipality and Hebei Province) at 215m altitude (so not much higher than BJ) and the Gubeikou hills rise to about 500m maximum. The Gubeikou Great Wall stretches north and west of the village while to the east, across the river and National Route 101, are the Jinshanling and Simatai sections of the Great Wall. There's supposed to be a great walk between these latter two sections, where it's also possible to camp apparently. This part of the Wall is supposed to be much less of a circus than Badaling, the only section we've previously visited.
The village of He Xi is 120km northeast of Beijing (right on the border of Beijing Municipality and Hebei Province) at 215m altitude (so not much higher than BJ) and the Gubeikou hills rise to about 500m maximum. The Gubeikou Great Wall stretches north and west of the village while to the east, across the river and National Route 101, are the Jinshanling and Simatai sections of the Great Wall. There's supposed to be a great walk between these latter two sections, where it's also possible to camp apparently. This part of the Wall is supposed to be much less of a circus than Badaling, the only section we've previously visited.
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