The great WALL~

 during spring and summer~

during autumn~

 during winter~

the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, enhanced; the majority of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty.

 The most comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that all the walls measure 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi).

This is made up of 6,259.6 km (3,889.5 mi) sections of actual wall, 359.7 km (223.5 mi) of trenches and 2,232.5 km (1,387.2 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.

It have 1400 steps to get from the ground to the wall, and countless more as I wondered up and down its length.

It really does live up to the hype. It's large and long it really is. I wonder if the end-result of the Great Wall is what was originally planned, or if it was a project that got way out of hand and just kept going and going (much like DIY projects today). I can't imagine. 

What the Mongols thought when they came across, nor what Chinese warriors thought when they were informed they had to climb atop it and walk up and down it in full gear. 

last word,
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