After a long, hard day of climbing the Great Wall you really don't want to climb back down. Fortunately Chinese people are incredibly smart. They setup an "Inertia Ropeway" which allows you to get down from the Great Wall with the greatest of ease.
I've been attending a small private Chinese language school here in Beijing in an attempt to improve my Mandarin language skills; which are currently at the baby talk level. The school took a trip out to the Simatai section of the great wall. Previously I had only visited badaling so it was nice to see a different part of the wall, especially one that is less touristy.
A few weeks ago Diana and I headed down to Shanghai. We flew down instead of taking the train and we took the "back way" to the Beijing airport. Normal Taxi fare to the airport from city center is around 75RMB, an express bus from Dongzimen is around 30RMB but if you take the public bus it is 4 mao or 4/10 of a RMB (currently the equivalent of 5 US cents). The cheapest route to the airport!
I shot this video several weeks ago and after I shot it the air cleared up for a few days and then got worse again. The last two days the SEPA index has been over 100. Fortunately today the rains and wind came to wash and blow away all of the pollution! yay!
