The Great Wall of China is even greater than you’d expect. Some 737 km (438 miles) of the wall, it turns out, were built outside of China, mostly in Mongolia, with some sections also in Russia. Now ...

This wall section stretches for around 250 miles in an arc-shaped line, running more or less parallel to the China-Mongolia border, through the eastern Mongolian provinces of Dornod and Sukhbaatar.

I had rewarding days with China Hiking, 156-52-200-950, and Great Wall Hiking, 158-114-44-863. China Hiking’s Jiankou hike is $90, including transfer from Beijing, entrance fee, lunch and an ...

The Manchu, or Qing, dynasty (1644-1912), hugely expanded China’s borders northward, making the Great Wall largely unnecessary as a defensive measure.The wall stands as the world’s largest ...

The Great Wall of China is one of the world’s most popular destinations in Asia. Referred, in the country, as “The Thousand-Mile-Long Wall,” the site was once thought to be visible to the ...

Standing high over us is a tower of the Great Wall of China. Relishing an insider’s food tour of Beijing The “Great Wall” is a bit of a misnomer, as there was never one single structure that ...

In the 1980s, Dong Yao-hui was part of the first three-person team to walk the entire length of China’s Great Wall. Find out how he did it and how he’s focused on its preservation today.

The Great Wall of China is even longer than once thought, after the first detailed government study to establish its length. ... The project will continue for another 18 months in order to map ...