As a native Beijinger, my favorite season is October, when the hills are filled with red and yellow. Into the autumn of Beijing, whether it is the high-rise city center or the mountains in the suburbs, are gradually from green to gold, and slowly turned into red, yellow and green with a hint of brilliant red, to the original monotonous colors of the city added a lot of color, like God overturned the palette, especially beautiful.

Girlfriends with children to play in Beijing, coinciding with the Chongyang Festival, want to find a Beijing characteristics and can be a place to enjoy the autumn, but either no Beijing characteristics, or public transportation is not very convenient, looking for half a day and did not pick the preferred destination.

Inadvertently from the push to see the Badaling Great Wall not long ago opened a new Great Wall bus, one stop directly to and from the city and the Badaling Great Wall, morning departure afternoon return, convenient and cheap, simply too suitable! So decisively in the online booking, Chongyang Festival Badaling Great Wall to enjoy the autumn go up, feel the autumn of Beiping and the world's wonders blend.

It is a shame, because the Great Wall during the holidays on the overcrowding of the news abound, so every time out to avoid the crowds went to some less crowded places, always think that the Great Wall of Badaling is there, and there is plenty of time to appreciate its majestic atmosphere, the results of living in Beijing for more than thirty years I was so wrong, actually only the second time to Badaling Great Wall. But this time fortunately did enough homework, chose a relatively niche south line, relatively fewer crowds, the experience doubled. Standing on the beacon tower to look into the distance, the hillside of the hillside of the red maple is so stunning, so that the imposing lonely city of the Great Wall also more than a trace of tenderness in the fall.

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Darling Bus, a direct bus to the Great Wall at Badaling.

In the morning, I took the subway to the departure station of the Great Wall Bus, and before 9 o'clock, I arrived at Exit C of the National Library on Subway Line 4, where the Great Wall Bus had been waiting for a long time. The light blue body of the bus was painted with the image of a chubby Ming Xiaobing, which was very cute, and people could tell from a distance that this was a special line for traveling to the Great Wall. Because the tickets were booked online in advance, you only need to provide your ID card number, cell phone number and Beijing health treasure to get on the bus.

I thought I had arrived early, but when I got on the bus, I realized that it was almost full and there were only a few seats left. But don't worry about not having a seat, there are 45 seats in the entire carriage, all of which are reserved in advance and sold out, so just make sure you get here before the train departs at 9:00am.

The interior of the compartment is much more spacious than I expected, not only the leather seats are wide and comfortable, if you think the two seats are not wide enough, you can also pull the aisle-side seats towards the center to adjust the pitch of the same row of seats. The overhead space for backpacks and luggage is also not small. Because of the round trip to and from the Great Wall are this car, so if tourists with large luggage, completely can be placed in the car first, when the return trip to remember to take it can be, light load is really very humane!

In addition to the driver, each bus is equipped with a staff member. When you first get on the bus, you will be given a small badge of the Great Wall Bus and a super large and red Good Humor Fruit, which symbolizes that it is not good to go to the Great Wall, and to the Great Wall, you should be safe and sound, which is really super considerate.

Along the way, the staff not only introduced the situation and precautions of the Great Wall bus, but also introduced in detail the tour guide and recommended itinerary of Badaling Great Wall, which was very useful!

After listening to his introduction, I realized that the original Great Wall bus is a scenic area in early September this year just opened a direct through the Badaling Great Wall of the one-stop scenic area through the bus. Because it is mainly for the convenience of weekend holiday tourists as well as ease the traffic pressure of weekend scenic tours, so only every Saturday and holidays. Want to ride the bus need to be at least one day in advance online reservation to buy tickets, after all, seats are limited, first-come-first-served.

9:00 a.m. on time, 15:30 p.m. from the Badaling Great Wall back to the city, because the bus can be driven directly to the scenic area from the cable car station closest to the Rolling Sky Gully parking lot, so compared to the need to change the ordinary bus and driving to the scenic area also have to queue up to change the barge, the Great Wall bus round-trip together to save more than 2 hours, it is really time-saving and labor-saving.

Great Wall Bus Tips:

Operating hours: Every Saturday and Sunday

Departure time and place: 09:00 Exit C of the National Library subway station

Return time and place: 15:30 Badaling Great Wall Great Wall Bookstore/Rolling Sky Gully Parking Lot

Ticket Fee: 80 RMB (not including Great Wall ticket)

Note:Be sure to book at least by 18:00 the night before your trip. You can also buy the Great Wall ticket and cable car ticket at the same time when you make a reservation to buy the ticket Oh ~

I thought the highway would be jammed on the weekend, but I didn't expect to get there after a short nap. Pull open the curtains to look out the window, the winding Great Wall in the red leaves all over the mountain vaguely visible, after more than a decade to see the Badaling Great Wall again, still feel it so majestic and majestic.

The crowded Badaling Great Wall can also be photographed with a sense of emptiness.

The Great Wall, as one of China's most distinctive historical buildings, is not only an ancient military fortification that the people of China are proud of, but also one of the world's important cultural heritages that are breathtaking to behold. A tall and sturdy long wall stretches continuously from Shanhaiguan all the way to Jiayuguan, running through half of China, and the scale of the magnificent architecture is unsurpassed so far.

Although Badaling Great Wall is only a section of the whole Great Wall, it is also famous for its lofty and steepness. As the outpost of Juyong Pass, Badaling Great Wall has the ancient name of "the danger of Juyong is not in the Pass but in Badaling" and the reputation of "Jade Pass and Heavenly Moat", so Badaling Great Wall is one of the few Great Wall scenic spots in Beijing that is worth to walk through.

The entire scenic area is divided into the north line and the south line. The north line opens up 8 enemy towers and you can take the gondola cable car to the seventh floor of the north, while the south line opens up 5 enemy towers and you can take the cool ground cable car to the fifth floor of the south. Because the northern route is relatively more treacherous, with more enemy towers open and a higher view, it is more challenging for climbing the Great Wall, so there are relatively more tourists.

I've been to the Northern Route before, so this time I'll experience the scenery of the Southern Route. I'm not going to give up the opportunity to ride the cable car, so I purchased the scenic spot ticket and the cable car ticket together when I booked the Great Wall bus, so that I could enter the scenic spot by brushing my ID card directly and save the time of queuing up to buy the ticket.

After getting off the Great Wall bus, we went through the north line parking lot and came all the way to the south line cable car station.

Take the elevator and follow the signs all the way to the cable car station, I thought it was the same gondola as the north line, but I didn't realize that the south line is a panoramic window of the ground cable car. The gondola is not only surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows, even on the roof is a block of oversized glass, so that tourists can tour the elegance of the Great Wall of Badaling at all times without a dead angle.

At this time in the leaf season, the track on both sides of the hillside, a maple tree red gradually formed a sea of red, when the train through which, as if through a red tunnel, the beautiful scenery makes people marveled again and again.

In addition to the staff, there were only my girlfriend and me in such a beautiful carriage, which was really a real "package"! Compared to the long lines of people waiting to board the cable car on the North Line, it's a far cry.

The first thing you see when you leave the cable car station is the classic stone monument that says, "If you don't make it to the Great Wall, you're not a good person". I couldn't help but take a few pictures of the famous monument - after all, no matter how I got up the mountain, I'm a good man now!

In fact, this monument has been in the good Han slope, is later scenic planning to move to here, and this also allows more tourists who can not climb to the top of the Great Wall to see its elegance.

Continuing along the path, you come to the wall between the southern fourth and southern fifth floors. To be honest, taking the cable car up the mountain is really the first time, I did not expect it to be so easy, this is the correct way to open the weekend leisurely vacation maple viewing!

Standing on the observation deck, look at the wind and sunshine under the Badaling Great Wall, winding coiled in the top of the mountains, like a giant dragon, quietly guarded here, a dynasty and a dynasty, generation after generation.

Badaling Great Wall, as one of the world's nine plugs, ushered in its unique style in the gorgeous red and yellow fall. With a touch of beauty between the majestic and magnificent, and a touch of rosy in the majestic atmosphere, it can be said to be the essence of the scenery of the Ming Great Wall.

Standing in the south of the enemy tower looking past is the Badaling Great Wall north line, in addition to the mountains of red leaves, the Great Wall on the flower green tourists actually also became the scenery suddenly especially glad that we chose to visit the south line is how correct decision ah! Although you can not be in the highest viewing platform standing in the Badaling Great Wall overlooking the mountains, but can stand in the best viewing platform to enjoy the most magnificent scenery of the Great Wall.

I love to take pictures of me naturally less portrait beautiful photos! Although the south line can not be done in the field of vision of no one, but the beacon tower as a background, find a good angle, the lens of the "packaged sense" or can easily get!

In addition to the city walls, the beacon is naturally not missing. The South Fourth Floor Beacon is the highest altitude viewing platform on the Southern Route. Whether you are looking down from the beacon tower to the South Third Floor or looking at the mountains through the brick wall, the surrounding area has gradually turned into a sea of red. The majestic Great Wall also has a touch of rosy in the red color of the mountains.

However, the road from the wall to the South Fourth Floor is relatively steep, but not much farther, pay attention to the safety of walking slowly or can easily reach, if you have time to the beautiful scenery of the beacon can not miss it.

A long time have not climbed the mountain of my physical strength is really a little bit unable to keep up, just walked two enemy building has been panting, but also some hungry. So I continued to take the cable car down the mountain and went to the commercial street for food.

Nowadays, Badaling is not only about the Great Wall.

The Badaling Great Wall as a world heritage site has not changed much, but nowadays the scenic spot has not only the Great Wall, the supporting facilities are not what they used to be. For example, on this lively commercial walk, a wide range of gourmet restaurants and gift stores abound, fried noodles, doge's meat, dumplings, all kinds of fast food.

Badaling Hotel

However, I still recommend the old classic Badaling Restaurant, not only the decor is high-end, but the taste of the food is also even more amazing. Although they only make home-cooked meals, you can see that the chefs have put their heart and soul into it.

Tomato scrambled eggs in almost more than half a plate of eggs let me eat to the cool, pork quail eggs fat but not tender is simply a rice dish, braised fish ingredients fresh meat tender, stir-fried broccoli crisp and refreshing, and even the pot sticker cake is also ultra-popular, I did not think that so many dishes actually end up with all the CD-ROMs!

Although the restaurant is atmospheric and the food is delicious, the price is quite affordable! Highly recommended for future visitors to the Badaling Great Wall to come here to taste the cost-effective home-cooked food.

In addition to dining, the Badaling Hotel also hides an awesome viewpoint of the northern line of the Great Wall! Because of the trees on both sides of the main street, the best viewpoint to see the Great Wall meandering along the northern line is actually located in the dining hall of the Badaling Hotel. When the foliage on both sides of the wall is in full bloom, it will be even more fascinating than being in the middle of it!

After eating and drinking, I saw that there was still time, so I went to the light pink Dream Great Wall Dome Theater located at the entrance of the pedestrian street.

Great Wall of Dreams Dome Theater

To be honest, the last time I saw a dome movie was when I was a kid at the Beijing Planetarium, and I thought the effect was super shocking and dreamy, so once I heard that there was a dome theater at the Great Wall of Badaling, I planted the seed to the point of no return, so of course I couldn't miss it.

The Dream Great Wall Dome Theater is actually a ball screen 3D motion theater that combines 360-degree stereoscopic films with motion seats, allowing visitors to experience the rich history and culture of the Great Wall for 5,000 years.

The movie will be played on time at every hour, mainly through the use of visual methods such as leaping and shuttling and the shocking and exciting visual experience, it tells the story of the Great Wall of China, which has been alternating in four seasons from the ancient times to the present day. The movie starts with the construction of the Great Wall, and after generations of wars and reconstruction, it is not easy for the Great Wall to still be able to show its beauty in the changing seasons. The movie ends with a surreal space wall, which shows the bold speculation and outlook of today's people on the future life.

The whole movie lasted about 20 minutes, and because it was so fascinating to watch, I couldn't get enough of it by the end of the movie. The previous understanding of the Great Wall is only fragmentary, but today after seeing the ball screen movie, the Great Wall has a more holistic, deeper and more macroscopic understanding of the Great Wall, very recommended ah.

In addition to the dome theater, the last place we recommend is the gift store that sells cultural and creative products of the Great Wall.

Great Wall Gift Shop

How can I miss out on the cultural creations of the Badaling Great Wall when I have to save up a little something for every attraction I visit? The Great Wall Gift Shop is located in the Guancheng Plaza at the entrance of the Badaling Great Wall, so go there in the last minute before the bus leaves.

In the past few years, the domestic tourist attractions of cultural and creative products have changed from the previous small workshop texture of the crude manufacturing, whether from the creative design to the material workmanship, really more and more exquisite, every time you stroll cultural and creative store, can not resist the urge to buy buy buy.

Before you enter the gift store, you will see the chubby Ming Xiaobing guarding the outside, lovely to the extreme.

When we stepped into the gift store, we were attracted by the wide range of cultural and creative products. There is a wide range of cultural and creative products, basically covering all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, so it can be said that everything is available. Personally, I like the Great Wall Four Seasons bookmarks, which are very well designed and made, the Qin and Ming soldiers, which represent the characteristics of the Badaling Great Wall, and the Sun Wukong Peking Opera dolls, which are made with super fine workmanship!

However, time was running out and it was almost time for the Great Wall bus to leave, so I finally chose the Ming Xiaobing, which can be seen everywhere in front of the gift store, and I was satisfied.

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We ran all the way back to the parking lot of Rolling Heavenly Gorge, where the Great Wall bus had been waiting for a long time, and this autumn maple-appreciation day trip to the Great Wall also ended quietly on the way back.

This is the second time in my life that I've been to Badaling Great Wall, and I never thought that I would be shocked by the stunning autumn colors. So I made a mental note to take the Great Wall bus again this winter when it snows, and come to Badaling Great Wall to enjoy the snow scene!