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The First Lady visit Travel Journal on the Great Wall of China.
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First Lady Michelle Obama and Malia and Sasha to visit the Great Wall of China on March 22, 2014 Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon.
Today we drove about an hour north of Beijing to a village called Mutianyu to visit a section of the Great Wall of China, which was simply breathtaking the scenery on the way there was a pretty wide panorama of mountains and trees so the drive was a treat but only runs along the highest ridges of the mountains, you see the Great Wall one of the great wonders of human history.
Overall, the Great Wall stretches from east to west across more than 13,000 miles of the Chinese countryside that's four times the length of the entire United States from Maine to Oregon There n is not a single continuous wall but rather a series of small walls which sometimes overlap and are parallel to each other.
Some sections of the rear wall dates to the seventh century B C but the majority of the Great Wall we know today, including the section at Mutianyu was built between the 1300s and the 1600s.
To access the wall, we rode a cable car a mountain and we drove later on down a long blade section we visited is one of the most popular parts of the wall for tourists, and it's easy to see why at Mutianyu wall is about 20 to 25 feet high and full of stairs, and there Sá watchtower 100 yards or if these watchtowers serve as a reminder of why the wall was built in first place to defend against attacks by armed descending from the north throughout its history, the Great Wall has gone through decades, even centuries, of ruin and disrepair but has always been not only a physical barrier, but psychological intimidate potential invaders.
During our visit to the wall, I could not stop thinking about what a major undertaking, it must have been to build hundreds of thousands of soldiers and peasants had the dangerous task, laborious and often fatal wear ton after ton of granite, brick, dirt and wood through forests, over hills and through valleys to create this incredible structure They did this year after year, decade after decade, it is because of their hard work and sacrifice that the Great Wall is still standing today.
First Lady Michelle Obama took a toboggan ride after visiting the Great Wall of China with Malia and Sasha March 23, 2014 Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon.
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