Jia Yu Guan Great Wall － 嘉峪关

Stretching over 6700km, holding over 2000 years of history, the Great Wall stand proudly across the northern periphery of China. The grandness of the Great Wall is not something you can capture by camera. You have to be there to see it.





The Jia Yu Guan （嘉峪关）Great Wall is located in the Gobi desert of Gan Su (甘肃）province, at the middle of Hexi Corridor. The pass is the best preserved of the Great Wall's ancient military fortresses. It is the last existing outpost on the west end of the Great Wall.





This is my second time to the Great Wall. Different than the stone built Ba Da Ling (八达岭) Great Wall near Beijing which I visited 5 years ago, the Jia Yu Guan （嘉峪关）Great Wall is built with mud bricks. Most of the original wall already eroded by the harsh weather in the desert. The stretch we see today is reconstructed in recent years.