Simatai

A few pictures from the Simatai section of the Great Wall. It rained pretty heavily on the way there, but fortunately not while we were climbing. The other good news: the rain really cooled the temperature. The bad news: much of the Great Wall was veiled in fog.

view from the "top" (the rest of the wall was roped off and under the watch of two guards)

The highlight of the trip was ziplining down from the Great Wall to river bank below. The elderly man selling tickets for the zipline warned us not to get too excited since even he thought it wasn't fast or thrilling enough, so instead of going one at a time, my friend and I got strapped in together. (Since the zipline runs only on momentum, we figured the heavier, the faster - and it worked!)

the view on the way down

evidence that I actually rode the "flying fox"