Today Claudia, another Katharina, Thomas, Stefan and me went to the Simatai section of the Great Wall.
The way there was already great fun because of our driver who probably wanted to beat the latest world record time for driving the road from Beijing to Simatai. He consistently ignored the "do not overpass in a zigzag way" traffic sign (yes, there is such a traffic sign in China) and took over the first car on the right side, the next on the left, the next on the right (the hardshoulder, but who cares :-)?) etc.
The Simatai part of the Great Wall is said to be much original and without restauration. In fact, it's not that much unrestored, just little parts of the hike on the wall are really orginal. Sometimes we could choose between two ways to climb up the hill, but: "the ways are the same, but different." (???) as local people trying to sell books and postcards explained to us at one of the cross-ways. The view in the mountains, the relatively (in comparison to Beijing) fresh air and the nice mountain lake with a bouncing bridge (ahhh!, why would people jump around on bouncing bridges?) were idylic and wild at the same time and not many tourists were around Simatai at this time of the year.
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