Jinshanling Great Wall is one of the most famous Great Wall in Beijing

Jinshanling Great Wall is one of the most famous Great Wall in Beijing, it is located in the border of Luanping in Hebei Province and Miyun district of Beijing. It is first built in Hongwu period in Ming Dynasty (year 1368) with the direct of general Xuda. After that, the famous Chinese gerneral Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun enlarged and rebuilt this section of Great Wall in year 1567. Now it is the most important sight seeing in Beijing and listed into World Culture heritage.

As one of the essence part of Great Wall, it is set as a national sightseeing in year 1911. The altitude of Jinshanling Great Wall is about 700 meters, Jinshanling is near to Simatai Great Wall and from the south of Jinshanling Great Wall, i is the Miyun reservoir. There are many towers covers here with various character, it is the most magnificent Great Wall within Beijing. Around the Jinshanling Great Wall, there are many trees and mountains, it is a place suitable to visit in every season.
Jinshanling is start from Longyu Kou in the west and east to Watching Beijing Tower, it is about 10.5 kilometers for the total. With located in the Yan mountain, it besides the steep cliff, there are 64 watch tower, 5 pass and 2 beason located along this section. It is the best preserved section of all of the Ming Great Wall and regards as th essence of the Great Wall built in Ming Dynasty. The soliers stand on this great wall could have a wild field of vision, with the intensive watch tower, Jinshanling Great Wall is easy to defense the enemy's invasion in the ancient times.

The watch tower here is about every 1 separated by 50~100 meters. The wall of the tower all huge stone with 5~8 meters, the various of them is different with their own character, some mixed with brick and wooden, some mixed of brick and stone, the eaves of these tower is different too, Jinshanling Great Wall is regarded as the most beautiful one in Beijing.
With the visit of Jinshanling Great Wall, the tourist could enjoy the magnificent and majestic deeply. Nowadays, more and more tourists would like to visit Jinshanling Great Wall when they tour Beijing. And the best method to visit Jinshanling Great Wall is by the bus tour, it could save the tour fee for Jinshanling Great Wall is far from the downtown Beijing and hard to find even the local people. There are many bus tours in Beijing with English speaking tour guide to serve for the foreign guest these years.