Follow a trail through the Changping countryside, passing villages, quarries, and a local shrine on the way to the Silver Pagodas, a set of five well-preserved 600-year-old pagodas that are all that remains of a big Buddhist temple. Includes a post-hike lunch at a countryside restaurant. We start...

The backwards version of our Chinese Knot hike—start by climbing up from Jiankou to ‘the Knot’, then down the back and over to the Great Wall Spur. Short but steep, with one tricky off-wall detour. We’d usually do this hike the other way around because of some steep sections that are easier to go...

Walk from Gubeikou to Jinshanling, following stretches of restored and unrestored Great Wall and taking a detour through the pretty farmland that surrounds Hemp Village, finishing all the way over at the Jinshanling Great Wall. The hike begins at the Gubeikou section of the Great Wall in Miyun...