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Would you like to join the group of Beijing tour during your holidays? With so rich tourism resources, the trip in Beijing will full of enjoyment.

Jinshanling Great Wall is one of the sections of the Great Wall located in Beijing. With the most beautiful scenery, Jinshanling Great Wall has become a top attraction of Beijing tours. Jinshanling Great Wall in Miyun County east to Simatai Great Wall and west to Gubeikou Great Wall with magnificent scenery. The dense of watch towers is rare beyond other sections. It is not too difficult to climb Jinshanling Great Wall, so it is a good place and a paradise for photographers. The most spectacular scenery in Jinshanling Great Wall is the sunrise and the sunset. If you are tired of the crowed section, Jinshanling Great Wall will be the ideal place for you. During the tour to Jinshanling Great Wall, tourists will not only enjoy the charming natural scenery but also learn more about the history of it.

Jinshanling Great Wall is located in Miyun County and this area is really worth visiting. Miyun County located in the northeast of Beijing, belongs to the junction of Yanshan Mountain and the North China Plain. The towering Jinshanling Great Wall stretches in the mountains; in the middle is the Miyun Reservoir with blue waves; the southwest is alluvial plain. The total terrain surrounded by mountains, enjoying unique geomorphology and beautiful landscape.

Yunmengshan 1414 meters above sea level and Wuling Mountain the highest peak of Yanshan with the elevation of 2118 meters are located in the east and west edges of Miyun County. In this area there distribute the Jinshanling Great Wall, Black Dragon Pool, Yunmengshan National Forest Park, Longtan scenic spot, Yunxiu Gorge, etc a large number of famous suburb attractions of Beijing. In Miyun County there built top 10 theme parks; form a 500,000 square meters of water; repair six bridges and opened 26 highways. There also planted hundreds of thousands of high-grade trees and flowers. During the spring and summer period, her becomes the flower sea. Dozens of sculptures, the recovery of the Fairy Tower, Bell Tower, the Confucian Temple and other artifacts, bring back the original atmosphere of the city, which become a bright spot of the Miyun Tourism. With the beautiful scenery everywhere including the famous Jinshanling Great Wall, Miyun County is the best place for tourists to leisure and tourism.

Now is the early summer in Beijing, the weather is warm but not hot, so it is the best time for traveling. Would you like to join the group of Beijing tour during this comfortable period? For tourists from all over the world, during Beijing tours there are a lot of beautiful places to see and good things to do. The Great Wall ranks the first.

The Great wall of China, symbolizing China’s ancient civilization and plays an important role nowadays in connecting the friendship between Chinese and foreign visitors. In Beijing there are several sections of the Great Wall opened to the public and Jinshanling Great Wall is a popular section attracting large numbers of tourists.

Jinshanling Great Wall lives up to its special beauty among China Great Wall by being slightly in ruins. Located some 140 kilometers to the northeast of Beijing, Jinshanling Great Wall starts from the Wangjinglou Tower in the east and ends at Longyukou in the west and stretches about 10 kilometers, with an elevation of 2100 feet. Jinshanling Great Wall Tour takes good advantage of the excellent condition of its wall and the majesty of its watchtowers. From afar, it conjures the image of a dragon lying across the mountains and it is easy to imagine the kind of awe it would have inspired in ancient times. For many Great Wall travel experts, Jinshanling Great Wall is the ultimate expression of Great Wall construction to be seen anywhere in China and it is revered for its strategic significance and aesthetic majesty.

Each tower on Jinshanling Great Wall has its unique feature and look and different seasons there enjoys different scenery. There are relatively less crowded here at Jinshanling Great Wall, it is a nice place to explore the Great Wall around Beijing.

If you are traveling with a tight time, half day Jinshanling Great Wall tour will be suitable for you. Since located far away from the downtown, the tour usually begins at 6:00 am. After about 3 hours driving, tourists will get to the destination – Jinshanling Great Wall. There are cable cars for those who are lack of energy. And by cable cars to the top, tourists could have a whole view of Jinshanling Great Wall. Also on the way, the tour guide will tell you a lot about the history and the original function of it.

There is a popular saying: “Having not been to Beijing Great Wall is not a true man” which now is a proverb. Beijing Great Wall contains several sections among which Jinshanling Great Wall is very popular.

Jinshanling Great Wall has been four hundred years, during which it suffered earthquake, the ancient fire of war and modern warfare reminder loss. However, due to the Great Wall along the ancient legacy, Jinshanling Great Wall basically maintained the original appearance. Cultural workers on the Jinshanling Great Wall have discovered the scientific value of more than a thousand pieces of precious cultural relics. Defenders of the Ming Dynasty which soldiers fighting with weapons and ammunition, such as: artillery, stone radium, grenades, barbed horse needles, arrowheads, iron projectiles, etc.; the daily life of soldiers guarding the city supplies, such as mortars, stone pestle, knives, oil lamps, pottery, bowl, wine, copper, stone, incense, etc. Particularly valuable, in a watch tower found a stone buried five hundred years of radium, which is equipped with more than a pound Ming gunpowder, ignited with a match, so far still on fire. There are tens of thousands of walls of bricks with text, with so many text blocks, the Great Wall has never been found on the second place. In short, the Jinshanling Great Wall scenery spot, cultural relics, military installations, ancient architecture, folklore all have a high ornamental and scientific value.

Jinshanling Great Wall is changing to different scenery throughout the year for visitors to enjoy. Spring to Jinshanling Great Wall, a verdant hillsides, peach, apricot, azalea, and a variety of unknown flowers, clumps, clusters, blooming, emitting a strong aroma; in summer, lush trees, gurgling mountain streams, colorful pink clouds and a rainbow appeared in the sky after the rain, the Jinshanling Great Wall is in colorful dress; during the fall season, Jinshanling Great Wall is covered with all kinds of wild fruits branches; and the winter snow, here becomes a silver in the world.

With such the beautiful scenery all the year round, Jinshanling Great Wall is really worth visiting during your Beijing tour. Since Beijing is very rich in tourism resources, so if you have enough time, there are also many other places deserve to visit during the trip. And also you should not miss the chance to experience the Beijing Nightlife in Houhai Bar Street or Sanlitun Bar Street which will really impress you.

There is a popular saying: “Having not been to Beijing Great Wall is not a true man” which now is a proverb popular among foreign tourists. Beijing Great Wall contains several sections among which Jinshanling Great Wall is very popular. Jinshanling Great Wall is one of the most representative sections of the Great Wall, located in the junction between Miyun County and Luanping in Hebei Province. And not far from Jinshanling Great Wall, there are also some other attractive places.

Miyun Reservoir located 13 kilometers north from Miyun County, is among the peaks of Yanshan Mountain, across the Chao and the White two rivers. Miyun Reservoir is the largest artificial lake in Asia which is called the “Yanshan Pearl”. It is the main commercial source of water for industrial of Beijing. In summer the average temperature is 3 ℃ lower than the downtown, so Miyun is a summer resort.

Miyun Reservoir was started in September 1958 and finished in September of 1960. The main buildings are White River with 66 meters high and 960.2 meters long; Chaohe main dam with 56 meters high and 1100 meters long; five Vice-dam, 2 water tunnel, three large Spillway, two power stations, a pool and a large adjustment to the Beijing Miyun aqueducts. The whole area of ​​ Miyun Reservoir is 188 square kilometers, 137,000 acres of water surface with the depth of 40 to 60 meters. The Reservoir is divided into three parts with a total storage capacity of 4.317 billion cubic meters, equivalent to 67 Ming Tombs Reservoir and 150 Kunming Lake.

With beautiful hills and thousands of images Miyun Reservoir attracts tourists from all over the world and become one of Jingdong famous tourist scenic spots. When you come to the reservoir, you will meet the dam at first sight. Reach the top of the dam, the vision suddenly become clear and vast. Little fishing vessels, boundless scenery, all kinds of buildings hidden among the mountains, just like Sin Temple Joan Tower all of which are really attractive. With so comfortable environment, Miyun Reservoir is the ideal place for you to tourism, fishing or rest.

After visiting Jinshanling Great Wall and Miyun Reservoir, you will be amazed at the beautiful scenery and the large scale. Also the excellent experience both in Jinshanling Great Wall and Miyun Reservoir will leave you a wonderful memory during your Beijing travel.

Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall and Badaling Great Wall both are very popular viewpoints of Beijing tour; tourists of Beijing tour cannot miss the two attraction of China Great Wall. Beijing Badaling Great Wall is located in Yanqing County, while the Jinshanling Great Wall is located in Beijing Miyuan County and is very close to Hebei Province, it is also regarded as a viewpoint of Hebei Province. Jinshanling Great Wall, located in Luanping County, Hebei Province, located in the Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, and Mongolia provinces intersection. It was built in the Ming Dynasty Hongwu period (1368). Two hundred years later, Chief General Chi Chiguang presided over re-construction as a thistle town officer in the period (1567-1582).

Jinshanling Great Wall, difficult terrain, wide vision, fortification rigorous, magnificent architecture, is the essence of the Great Wall of China location. In January 1988, published by the State Council for the third national cultural heritage, in 1991 was selected as one of national tourist attractions, state-level scenic spot. About 20 km long in the Jinshanling Great Wall, with the size of pass five, two beacon towers, but also the 67 of the watch tower with different forms, a square building, floor, round, flat floor, corner building; there are flat-topped, boat top style, the dome, the top corners of drilling days and octagonal caisson. Watch tower are two layers: the lower vertical and horizontal six archways, can accommodate 60 to 70 people; the top there is a sentry for the soldiers, shelter, a small room, one building was clever. Also there are retaining horse’s walls, barrier walls, shooting holes, cast place, lookout hole and facilities available, reasonable layout. There are also strange landscape: mountains Joan Tower “Beijing watchtower building” thrilling spectacle “thin ridge donkey,” towering “landing ladder” amazing world “word wall”, Hot Springs, Tianquan, turtle rock, sky-hole, the size of Jinshan and other wonders of the different views.

After the Jinshanling Great Wall tour, tourists can have a rest in Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel. The hotel with good facilities is located in Yangshan Village of Mujiayu Town; there are about rooms about 248 and opened in 2003. The related  living facilities: Laundry service, meeting rooms, wake up service, parking, free parking, luggage services, ticketing services, postal service, Front Desk Safe and so on.

Beijing Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel is a good place to live in during Jinshanling Great Wall tour. Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall is a popular section of Great Wall in Beijing and attracts a lot of international tourists to have a visit of Jinshanling Great Wall. If tourists of Jinshanling Great Wall want to have a rest time after the tour in Miyun, maybe the Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel is a good choice for you. Here is some information about Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel for tourists of Jinshanling Great Wall tourists as follows:

The Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel is located in Yangshan Village of Mujiayu Town, Miyun County; there are about rooms about 248 and opened in 2003. The Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel is in the east of Miyun County; tourists will find a fairy-tale beautiful European-style castle- Beijing Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel that emerged out in the midst of rolling clouds. The Miyun Red Wine Village Hotel is in the turbulent embrace one thousand areas, accommodation can be simple to be novel to enjoy, being quiet meeting, can be made ​​to free entertainment. There are horses for riding, a group of cattle feed, milk supply up there, there are fish for the hook. The open-air swimming pool built in the mountains reminding us of scenes to make your exposure to nine days. Beijing Miyun wine estate has all kinds of luxury suites and standard rooms, which can host hundreds of people. 5 large meeting rooms, including 300-seat lecture hall and the conference rooms on the second floor of the four. Check Manor, traveled to Miyun, is extremely convenient.

Hotel Facilities: Laundry service, meeting rooms, wake up service, parking, free parking, luggage services, ticketing services, postal service, Front Desk Safe. Room facilities: domestic long distance calls, international calls, central air conditioning / general split air-conditioning, 24-hour hot water, complimentary toiletries, slippers, separate writing desk, electric kettle. Leisure facilities: nightclubs, Kara OK hall, fitness room, massage room, sauna, billiards, table tennis room, foot massage, SPA, indoor pool, outdoor pool, tennis courts, golf, basketball, bowling , video game rooms. Restaurants: Chinese restaurant, Western restaurant, bar, tea room, limited room service. The surrounding landscape: the Miyun Reservoir and JInshanling Great Wall.

With so many beautiful natural scenery and historical sites, Beijing tour is one of the most popular tourist lines in the world. If you are interested in natural landscapes, then Jinshanling Great Wall is the place you should never miss during your trip. With the magnificent scenery, Jinshanling Great Wall attracts a great many tourists at home and abroad.

The total area of Jinshanling Great Wall scenic spot is 32 square kilometers. In spring, the mountains are full of colorful flowers. In summer, green trees are around the whole mountain. In autumn, the maple leaves make the whole mountain more enthusiastic. In winter, there are full of white snow. The elevation of Jinshanling Great Wall is 700 meters. In order to make tourists feel more interesting, the scenic spot of Jinshanling Great Wall added an 800 meters long travel cable together with go-kart, dropped and other entertainment projects. In order to enrich the night entertainment activities in Jinshanling Great Wall, there built a 3 kilometers night Great Wall.

Tourists will not only enjoy the beautiful scenery but also have a lot of fun during their visit to Jingshanling Great Wall. And also you will find the Great Wall is so magnificent.

Great Wall tour is a must thing to do for tourists in Beijing. The Badaling Great Wall is the most famous section of China Great Wall and attracts a lot of foreigners and Chinese tourists to have a travel. Besides of the Badaling Great Wall, Jinshanling Great Wall also is a good place worthy to be visited during Beijing tour. Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall is unique for its complex structure and excellent natural scenery. The Beijing Jinshanling Great Wall is located in Miyun County of Beijing and has a long history from 1368. It was built in the period of Ming Zhu Yuanzhang Emperor; Zhu Yuanzhang was the first emperor of Ming dynasty.

The autumn scenery of Jinshanling Great Wall is very beautiful and tourists in Beijing cannot miss the good opportunity to visit the autumn scenery in Jinshanling Great Wall. The structure of the Jinshanling Great Wall is comples and the Jinshanling Great Wall was rebuilt in 1567-1582. There are many watch towers in Jinshanling Great Wall; there is one watcher tower each 50-100 meters and the height of watch tower is usual 5-8 meters with unique features. Tourists in Beijing can book Jinshanling Great Wall tour line if you are interested in Jinshanling Great Wall tour, such as the Jinshanling and Simatai Great Wall Tour.

The history of Jinshanling Great wall is about 400 years, it suffered earthquake, ancient war and mordern warfire damage.

Due to Great Wall own the ancient legacy, it maintain the original outlook basically. Cultural workers explore more than 1000 pieces of precious cultural relics along Jinshanling Great Wall which own precious cultural and scientific value. Among them, the weapons and ammunition of the soldiers in Ming Dynasty, such as artillery, stone radium, grenades, barbed horse needles, arrows, iron shot, etc..

The most precious is the stone with 500 years history with a pound of gunpower in it, when the cultural workers light it, the gunpwer also able to have some fire and sizzling sound.

There are more than 10 thousand wall bricks with text along Jinshanling Great Wall type with the bricks era and unit designation. Such as “bulit in Wanli 5 year from Ningxia”, “built in Wanli 6 year by vibration prisoner cavalry”, “Wanli 6 years built by Dezhou”, etc..

The script wall bricks in Jinshanling Great wall own the biggest amount in all of the great wall discovered until now. The stone tablet built by Qi Jiguang’s army also stand there, it provides that Jinshanling Great Wall is construct by the famous genernal Qi Jiguang in Ming dynasty.

The army from Shandong province, Ningxia Province, Hebei Province, Beijing and Jiangxi Province, with uniform standard, clear division labor, strict quality inspection and the strong support from the local officals to built Great Wall and make sure the completion on time. After the several decades of Qi Jiguang, Ming dynasty keep to sent some troops to repair Great Wall.

The Jinshanling Great Wall is situated on the Big and Small Jinshanling. So it was called Jiangshanling Great Wall. Based on huge stone bars, the Great Wall was then made by huge bricks, and each of them was 12 kilograms weight. Jinshanling Great Wall is worth to visit for its own features.

Jinshanling Great Wall has five main passes and 67 watchtowers. Every 100 meters, there is an enemy tower each of which is about ten meters high. Featuring various structures and having various functions, those watchtowers are either one tiered or two-tiered. On the first floor there are some windows for shooting arrows. The roofs of the towers are many and varied, flat, arched, quadrangular or octagonal. Some are used to store weapons and hay. Others are used as soldiers’ bedrooms. Among them, the most celebrated are the big and small Jinshan Watchtowers.

The big Jinshan Watchtower has two tiers which are connected by stone stairs. On the top of the tower is a small room used as the soldiers’ retiring room. The small Jinshan Watchtower was constructed by soldiers led by the famous general, Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty. On the top of the tower in Jinshanling Great Wall, you can see beautiful scenery of Jinshanling Great Wall. You will find that the Great Wall is so magnificent.