Photos! Zhangjiakou photos

[Bryan]

Post your Zhangjiakou photos here.

[chinoook]

-chinoook

[Kim]

Great photos again and a beautiful location - I hope to go there myself one day.

Any signs of surfacing (not sure if that's the right word) at the towers? Where they covered with bricks or stone or just rammed earth?

[chinoook]

Originally Posted by Kim

Great photos again and a beautiful location - I hope to go there myself one day.

Any signs of surfacing (not sure if that's the right word) at the towers? Where they covered with bricks or stone or just rammed earth?

_All_ towers where covered with bricks. We have a mixture of Qin and Ming design (both walls run at the same location here). The "inline" towers on the wall and the round towers (or squarish for Qin) are on slightly higher elevation but have all had brick coverage.


-chinoook

[Kim]

Originally Posted by chinoook

_All_ towers where covered with bricks. We have a mixture of Qin and Ming design (both walls run at the same location here). The "inline" towers on the wall and the round towers (or squarish for Qin) are on slightly higher elevation but have all had brick coverage.


-chinoook

Thank you for clarify that. I've been wondering about that for some time.

[andarchen]

Picture in panoramio showed the remained fort's west wall at 40°50'38.18"N 114°53'10.80" E, there were two fortresses inside Changjiakou GW , the small one (Laiyuanbao ,来远堡) at 40°50'35.15"N 114°53'15.65"E is near pass , and another large one (Ninyuanbao,宁远堡) at 40°49'6.85"N 114°52'20.36"E is far from pass .

Small fort's west wall

[Bryan]

Zhangjiakou seems to be as interesting a place as I had imagined!

Originally Posted by chinoook

Was this section of the Great Wall rebuilt? It looks that way. Can you provide the location for this photo?

Thank you for sharing these wonderful pictures.

[chinoook]

Originally Posted by Bryan

Zhangjiakou seems to be as interesting a place as I had imagined!

I agree. It would be easy to spent a hole holiday in that area to explore all parts of the walls. I didn't even reach the Qin/Ming junction but by now I am prepared where and how to find and how to get close. It will stay on my list and the next time I have to spent time around Beijing I will return.

Was this section of the Great Wall rebuilt? It looks that way. Can you provide the location for this photo?

Yes, it is rebuild. I did not take any Badaling-style photos. The location is 40°50'40.22"N 114°53'9.08"E, the name is Dajingmen.


-chinoook