great wall, please, please help
 

please tell me the best and cheapest way to visit it from beijing

i went with a bus group of overweight americans. It cost about $10 and was quite dissappointing. The best way is to bike along it.

<BR>I went with a tour bus group of an overweight Austrian woman and an average Scotsman. It was fine.<BR><BR>See other posts on the subject, particularly where Peter N-H goes into detail on how to get there by local bus.<BR>

How do you bike along the great wall? We visited the Wall at Badaling and it was all stairs as far as the eye could see. Very challenging and worthwile, but not an inch of flat wall.

<BR>When I was a kid, a senile old man would come in and order a burger at the restaurant where I mopped the floor. When his request for &quot;tomato jelly&quot; was satisfied, he would begin pouring it on his fries and say: &quot;HALLELUJAH&quot; (pause) &quot;When I say hallelujah, you say 'amen'&quot;. &quot;HALLELUJAH&quot;. An &quot;amen&quot; would stop him until he was on his way out. Surely he is gone now.<BR><BR>When I travel, solo, and get a bit lonely I sing the Paul Simon song &quot;You Can Call Me Al&quot;. &quot;He was a foreign man ... ... spinning in infinity, he said 'Amen' and &quot;Hallelujah'&quot;<BR><BR>I was at the top of a hill on the Wall and two Chinese women were finishing their cold struggle up. Looked like local Chinese women to me, but having reached the top, one said &quot;Praise the Lord!&quot;. The other said &quot;Hallelujah!&quot;.<BR><BR>I said &quot;Amen&quot;.<BR>