Tips for a perfect day at the Mutianyu Great Wall 🇨🇳

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The Great Wall was constructed on the top of the mountain chains. So the first thing to know is that there are multiple ways and combinations to go up and down the mountain:

They are:

🥾 Hiking
🚠 Cable car (closed cabin)
🚡 Cable way (opened cabin)
🛝 Slide way (only goes down)

❌ Don’t do what I did. I bought cable car up and down. That means I have to walk on the wall to my preferred path (right or left) then go back exactly the same way to get the cable car down.
That’s a bad choice because it’s tiring and you don’t see anything new on the way back, only the same views.

💚 The best route is to take the cable car up, walk to the right side towards the cable way and slide way. This path takes about 1h30min.
You can go a bit further if you want, until the end of the accessible path of the wall, then go back to the cable way or slide.
To go down you can take the cable way or the slide. Both start at the same point at the wall.

Summary:
🔼cable car up
➡️ walk 1.5 hours to the right
🔽 cable way or slide down
Total cost 245 💴

🤑 Prices breakdown:

Entrance: 45 yuan

🚠 cable car or 🚡cable way
Round trip 140 💰
One way 100 💰

🛝 Slide way
Only down 40 💰

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