Java in China

After all that, I got to be a tourist for a while. This is a picture of me on top of one of the many guard towers on the Great Wall of China. I actually climbed to the top of the highest tower in the background. I had been somewhat puzzled about why folks talked about "climbing" the great wall: I had this naive view that you got to the top of the wall and then walked along it. But walking along it is truly hard: the wall goes up some very steep and high mountain slopes. It's quite an impressive piece of work.
October 18, 2003 |