Today was our first real sightseeing day, which was really nice. We started the day off at the Silk Market, a smaller version of the Pearl Market we visited on Wednesday. I bought some nice knockoff sunglasses and then it was off to the Great Wall. As for the experience of climbing the wall, all I can say is WOW – pictures really can’t do justice to how impressive the whole thing is. Elise did an awesome job of making sure we took lots of pictures, which was good since I’m usually bad at remembering to take out my camera. After running down the wall, we got some Magnums (kind of like Dove bars, but you can’t get them in the U.S.) and headed up to the town of Zhangjiakou.
In Zhangjiakou we ate dinner at our hotel, which included a ton of great Chinese food, Zhongou beer, and rice wine liquor. After dinner we got Chinese foot massages, which included a boiling bowl of water to submerge our feet in, lots of oil, and fire. After all of the masseuse’s tricks, our feet felt much better from all the walking we had done. The massage made us all so tired and relaxed that we just went upstairs and fell asleep once our heads hit the pillow.
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