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Happy visitors at Great Wall

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This summer we spent a few hours hiking around Badaling potion of the Great Wall. While there I tried to get a few people photos. I took random photos of random people. Some were posing for another photo, some were just walking around and didn’t pose for any photos and some were in their own dream world and didn’t care what is happening around them. Turns out that it is not as easy to take such photos as you’d think, even with thousands of people swarming around you, they are either not interesting looking, they are not in right angle, or I’m just not fast enough to point my camera at the right time and press the shutter. I managed to get a few of them though that are not that bad. Here is one of them.

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Linn Cove Viaduct and Chinese Great Wall

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Recently we made an interesting discovery. According to the Beijing Marriott Courtyard travel magazine, the Linn Cove Viaduct is actually part of the Chinese Great Wall. Imagine our surprise when we opened it and saw something very familiar, something that I’ve seen here in NC so many times and actually have very similar photo of it as well. But, I guess, Chinese folks who designed that magazine know better, after all the Great Wall is only 50 miles away from Beijing and maybe they build a replica of Linn Cove Viaduct somewhere around it. Why they didn’t use one of their own Great Wall pictures is beyond simple understanding, just shows some basic ignorance of the people.

The travel magazine is about 100 pages and shows many other great marvels that tourists must visit. I just wonder, what percentage of corresponding pictures they have pulled from somewhere else and that have nothing to do with the actual subject.

So the magazine introduces the ruins of Great Wall at Badaling and goes on to describe them as – “Roaming across ruins of the Great Wall and walking through forests with red leaves, you can’t help being enchanted by the romantic charm.”

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