How to go about walking the ENTIRE length of the great wall of China?

Question

I want to walk the whole length of the great wall of China, I have google it and it can and has been done by a handful of people but I have absolutely no idea how to go about it, does anyone know how you would even being to go about something like that?

Answer 1

This isn't an easy think to do, that's for sure.



Firstly, you need to decided what Great Wall walk you want to do. Contrary to popular belief there is no one Great Wall of China - the wall was built in stages over hundreds of years and not all of it is still in existence. What is left is not linear - there are lots of branches and sub-branches so if you want to walk the whole thing you'll have track back a lot. Get a map and decide which route you want to take.



In the minds of most the wall proper starts at Jiayuguan Fort in Western China near the city of the same name in Gansu Province. Beyond this to the west was the lands of the barbarians in the minds of the people who built the wall. From there the walls snakes its way East moving North of Beijing until it reaches the sea at Shanhaiguan. This is a nearly 4000 mile journey over some very rough terrain.



If you are really going to do this you need to learn Mandarin Chinese to a reasonable level. The Great Wall passes through some very, very remote and inhospitable terrain. You are going to need to be able to communicate with people along the way to obtain food and shelter and nobody will speak English. And by nobody, I don't mean very few, I mean NOBODY. There are very few hotels along the way so you will need to improvise where you stay. There will also be very few cash machines (ATM) so you will need to find a way to carry enough cash for the journey.



I would seriously consider doing this as a group or at the very least taking somebody else with you. If you fall or are injured in a remote part of China you will be in a lot of trouble if there is nobody there to help you. The wall, for the most part is in a poor state of repair and you cannot walk along all of it as it is too dangerous. Even where you can walk on or alongside it the ground can be very loose under foot.



Make sure you are fit enough for the journey too. The Great Wall was built as a defensive structure so it often runs up over mountains to make it harder to attack. Some of the climbs are very steep!



If you do decide to do this journey, good luck and I know it will be a once in a lifetime experience!

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How to go about walking the ENTIRE length of the great wall of China?

I want to walk the whole length of the great wall of China, I have google it and it can and has been done by a handful of people but I have absolutely no idea how to go about it, does anyone know how you would even being to go about something like that?

Answer 3

It is impossible to walking the "ENTIRE" length of the great wall now. Some areas have been closed off for development, some areas are just not possible to walk through, and some areas have deteriorated so much that they are hardly recognizable. Only the protected, reserved lengths of the great wall are walkable. Of course, there are many, many miles of that. You'd have to do a lot of research about the route of the great wall, and how to get from one walkable spot to the other, as some are in very inhospitable, undeveloped areas.

Answer 4

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The Great Wall of China is the world's longest man-made structure - and consists of a series of walls. It stretches over a formidable 6,352 km (3,948 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Sea in the east, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Along most of its arc, it roughly delineates the border between North China and Inner Mongolia. If your friend has the time, energy, and money [most important !], to indulge in this whim, he/she could hopefully walk its entire length in around 330 days - if he/she manages to cover at least 12 miles [19.3 km] each day.

Answer 5

The great wall is very long. It goes through some of the most rugged and inhospital territory in China (it was built where people didn't live, as a barrier to stop people coming in to where people live).



You are looking at rugged mountains, unpopulated deserts.



You really want to be prepared before you go.



Basically you would need to plan things like



1. Visa (tourist visa is 3 months at the most)

2. Where to get supplies etc



and so on.



You should try contact people who have done it before.

Answer 6

Pretty sure It's impossible now because some parts of the wall have been too badly destroyed and some parts have been closed off.

Answer 7

It is really a great project! I think you'd better know more about the Great Wall first.



The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built originally to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire against intrusions by various nomadic groups. Several walls have been built since the 5th century BC that are referred to collectively as the Great Wall, which has been rebuilt and maintained from the 5th century BC through the 16th century. One of the most famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains; the majority of the existing wall was built during the Ming Dynasty.



The Great Wall stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. The most comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the entire Great Wall, with all of its branches, stretches for 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi). This is made up of 6,259.6 km sections of actual wall, 359.7 km of trenches and 2,232.5 km of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.



Some of the following sections are in Beijing, which were renovated and which are regularly visited by modern tourists today:

1 "North Pass" of Juyongguan pass, known as the Badaling. When used by the Chinese to protect their land, this section of the wall has had many guards to defend China’s capital Beijing. Made of stone and bricks from the hills, this portion of the Great Wall is 7.8 meters high and 5 meters wide.

2 "West Pass" of Jiayuguan pass. This fort is near the western edges of the Great Wall.

3 "Pass" of Shanhaiguan. This fort is near the eastern edges of the Great Wall.

4 One of the most striking sections of the Ming Great Wall is where it climbs extremely steep slopes. It runs 11 kilometers long, ranges from 5 to 8 meters in height, and 6 meters across the bottom, narrowing up to 5 meters across the top. Wangjinglou is one of Jinshanling's 67 watchtowers, 980 meters above sea level.

5 South East of Jinshanling, is the Mutianyu Great Wall which winds along lofty, cragged mountains from the southeast to the northwest for approximately 2.25 kilometers. It is connected with Juyongguan Pass to the west and Gubeikou to the east.

6 25 km west of the Liao Tian Ling stands apart of Great Wall which is only 2~3 stories high. According to the records of Lin Tian, the wall was not only extremely short compared to others, but it appears to be silver. Archeologists explain that the wall appears to be silver because the stone they used were from Shan Xi, where many mines are found. The stone contains extremely high levels of metal in it causing it to appear silver. However, due to years of decay of the Great Wall, it is hard to see the silver part of the wall today.

7 Another notable section lies near the eastern extremity of the wall, where the first pass of the Great Wall was built on the Shanhaiguan (known as the “Number One Pass Under Heaven”). 3 km north of Shanhaiguan is Jiaoshan Great Wall, the site of the first mountain of the Great Wall.[23] 15 km northeast from Shanhaiguan, is the Jiumenkou, which is the only portion of the wall that was built as a bridge.



Wish you a good journey and hope you complete this project one day.

Answer 8

Have you done this yet? I want to do this too.

Answer 9

Wear a comfortable pair of shoes.

Answer 10

Have you done it yet????