I admit it, I am completely obsessed with the Wild Wall. It is just so unbelievably crazy to me that this wall is still standing without any reconstruction in some places. And you know which parts are the most fun to go wander around? Yes, the illegal ones that are falling apart. This time I was accompanied by my good friend, Nicolas. And the fact that he pretty much speaks fluent Chinese makes my day even better. We think we were on a part called Ming Dynasty, between Moshike and Jiankou. We hiked up through a beautiful, green valley to get up to the wall and once we did it was incredible. Everything is so green this time of year! The air was bad but lets take it as a positive note of making things more mysterious and dark? Oh wait, it was raining. That's why it was dark.
So we are going up this part that is pretty much straight up and down; I think about 90 degrees. Anyway, he was on his hands and knees climbing up, me behind him, and suddenly the huge boulders started breaking and coming out from under him. Next thing I know there are huge chunks of the wall flying through the air, hitting me, and then it got to the point where it was so bad I had to run over to the side to dodge a huge one and I pretty much fell right off. I am pretty banged up and bruised from it but I'll be fine. We can say that Nic was really just trying to kill me. I think that I should be added in history books or at least newspaper headlines reading - AMERICAN GIRL, PART OF THE CRUMBING OF THE GREAT WALL.
Lets say I'm a living piece of history.
Glad to be alive.
xoxo
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