Tuesday was Great Wall day, which I was really looking forward to. Our coach took us out of town, stopping off at a pearl factory (basically a tourist trap designed to get people to spend money) and then to Badaling, one of the best preserved (and busiest!) bits of the Great Wall. We were unfortunately only given an hour and a half at the wall when I could easily have spent all day there, but I managed to walk a fair length of that section and take some pictures. It's really steep in parts! I found a small temple just off the wall called Guizhou, which was very peaceful and away from the crowds.
After that it was off to an enamel factory for lunch (and another tourist trap shop) before heading to the Ming Tomb. The tomb itself is vaguely interesting but it is really just another collection of temple-type buildings and I think I saw enough of those on Monday. We didn't have time to stop off at the lines of stone animals lining the way to the tomb, which was a great shame as that would have been more interesting I think.
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