Visit to Beijing

Nancy and I arrived in Ulan Bator on Sunday, after taking the trans-Mongolian railway from Beijing.

We have spent two full days in Beijing; the first day touring the city, and the second day doing a hike to a non-tourist area of the Great Wall. On the first day we walked from the Forbidden City, through Tianamien Square to the Temple of Heaven.the hike, which involved a three-hour drive from Beijing, covered probably about a mile of the Great Wall, in an area that has not been reconstructed.the attached photographs show me in front of Mao's tomb. and the area that we hiked.