古北水鎮

短途旅遊，適合來玩，走走看看，吃吃喝喝。景色宜人，冬天需要厚衣服風大。便利店，餐廳都很方便。北京搭巴士可以到也很合適

One of the best deals! The guide Susie was the best. She wonderfully organised everything. I took the shuttle bus, wtown ticket, car cable round** and the wall ticket. I think the lunch also worth its money. Basically she took everyone for the hotpot which was only 80 yuans per person, while in cafes you’ll spend at least 200 yuans for the hotpot (I spent 200 yuans for lunch: for a beef, a muller wine and fried fishsticks). The wall hike isn’t that bad as I thought, basically it is fairly easy and flat. The most struggle is climbing the wall from gate 2 to gate 10 (height difference is enormous). I would recommend to take the hike and climb up to gate 5 or gate 10 and leave on the cable car. As for Gunei it is very cool. On 7th of January it was almost empty.

This is definitely recommended if you want to see the great wall but you don’t want to be surrounded by such big crowds. Plus you get the added bonus of seeing a beautiful watertown.

Since there was no holiday when we went, the wall and the town were very quiet with some areas having no people at all . The scenery was beautiful with all the old style housing and at night even the wall lit up making it extra special. Our guide Susie was incredibly helpful the entire time and promptly answered any questions I sent to her.

Worth the **. Like taking a ** back in time . Just a 2 hr bus ride from Beijing city. Magical ancient city with surreal views .