Gubeikou to Jinshanling Great Wall Camping 2 Days

An intense 15-km hike from the renovated staircases of Jinshanling Great Wall to the authentic fortresses of the Gubeikou Great Wall. The scenery here is stunning and the photo opportunities are endless. You’ll need a good physical condition to hike this trail, but there is plenty of time for it. All camping gear will be delivered to the campsite, so you do not need to carry anything during the hike.

Hiking Distance: 15km

Hiking Duration: 4-6h

Hike level: 3

Departure time: 8:30 am

Back in Beijing: 2 pm

Price: 1300￥ (1170 RMB for kids 7-17, 1040 RMB for membership, 650 RMB for kids younger than 7)

Day 1: Hike from Gubeikou to Jinshanling Great Wall (10km, 4 hours hiking)

From our meeting point (Lama Temple Subway exit B), our drive will take 2-hour before we reach the border of Beijing and Hubei province. Our first stop is at our farmer friends living next to the Gubeikou Great Wall. They a run a small homestay at the back of a valley surrounded by the Great Wall. With a view of the Crouching Tiger Great Wall, we enjoy a delicious lunch in their backyard. From here our adventure starts.

It takes us only a 15-minute hike up the hill behind the farmhouse before we get our first glimpse of the Gubeikou Great Wall. After a few turns on the little dirt trail, we reach the Great Wall. We hike from tower to tower and take breaks on top of different watchtower. These breaks are a great chance to take some awesome pictures of this 1400 years old section of the Great Wall.

3 hours into the hike we arrive at the highlight of today’s trail, the Gubeikou General Tower. From this tower, you can see the “whole Gubeikou-Jinshanling-Simatai Great Wall trek” from the start to the end. On a clear day, we can even see the highest tower at the end section of the Simatai Great Wall. Here we side track a bit from the Wall to get around the restricted military section of the wild Gubeikou and Jinshanling Great Wall. The side track is just as pretty as we hike on the hill ridges and through the farm fields next to the Great Wall. in the early evening we take a break for and excellent home cooked dinner with our local farmer friends. After dinner we continue our quest to one of our most scenic camping spots right on a mountain ridge right next the the Wild Jinshanling Great Wall. Time for stargazing and sipping your favourite drink around the campfire in a surreal surrounding.

Day 2: Hike from Wild Jinshanling Great Wall to the restored section of the Jinshanling Great Wall (4km, 2 hours hiking)

We get up early in morning for our perfect snapshot of the “Great Wall sunrise” and head down to our farmer friends for breakfast. With renewed strength we head straight to the Great Wall again. A small trail will bring us past an excellent view point and in no time we are on the Wild Jinshanling Great Wall.

The 10-km long Jinshanling Great Wall shows us some amazing defensive features like barrier walls, battlement walls, watchtowers, gun emplacements, shooting holes, horse holes, horse blocking walls.

We hike down the crumbled section of the wild Jinshanling for about 30 minutes till we reach at the most famous and best preserved and partly restored section of the Great Wall. Here you can see how the Great Wall of China looked like during the Ming Dynasty.

After a short hike on the restored Jinshanling Great Wall we take a small staircase from one of the battle stations and make our way to the parking lot where our driver will be waiting for us. By 2 O clock we will be back at our Lama temple meeting point.

Level 3: medium-strong

Level 3: Medium/ strong

The Gubeikou to Jinshanling is long but comfortable trip is there are no really steep sections to hike. We don’t have to carry any camping gear during the hike so it suitable for people in normal to good shape.

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