Juyongguan Great Wall Pass is the first of three impregnable passes in The Great Wall of China. The below video was filmed last month in conjunction with climbing The Great Wall of China at this north pass to Beijing.
Positioned 37 miles north of Beijing’s center The Great Wall of China at this juncture protected the city from Mongol invasions during the Ming Dynasty when it was built in its present form by the first Ming Emperor who had moved the Capital of China from Nanking a/k/a Nanjing to Peking a/k/a Beijing in the early 1400s prior to Columbus's discovery of America.
Even before China was united by its first Emperor Qin circa 200 BC who is given credit for first building The Great Wall of China by linking together many smaller walls, a form of the wall at this location had been erected centuries prior.
In this below video I am standing at one of the Eastern Wall’s vantage points and looking across to the Western portion of the wall which is the most treacherous to climb. The highest point is on top of the Western Wall and designated as Fortress 13.
(In a companion video filmed 6 years ago I share the view from Fortress 13 looking to the Eastern wall as I viewed it then after climbing to the highest point.)
Standing at Fortress 13 of The Great Wall of China’s challenging Western Section located at Juyongguan Pass, this video records the spectacular view looking across the valley to the Eastern portion of The Great Wall of China.
Fortress 13 is the highest point. Six years ago I climbed to this point. Last month I returned and climbed the Eastern portion of the wall from where in a companion video I filmed the opposite view looking back to the Western portion.
On this prior visit I was motivated to climb the more difficult Western route when my guide advised that it was the route that Michael Jordan and Nicolas Cage chose on their visits to The Great Wall of China when he had guided them.
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Juyongguan Great Wall Pass is the first of three impregnable passes in The Great Wall of China. The below video was filmed last month in conjunction with climbing The Great Wall of China at this north pass to Beijing.
Positioned 37 miles north of Beijing’s center The Great Wall of China at this juncture protected the city from Mongol invasions during the Ming Dynasty when it was built in its present form by the first Ming Emperor who had moved the Capital of China from Nanking a/k/a Nanjing to Peking a/k/a Beijing in the early 1400s prior to Columbus's discovery of America.
Even before China was united by its first Emperor Qin circa 200 BC who is given credit for first building The Great Wall of China by linking together many smaller walls, a form of the wall at this location had been erected centuries prior.
In this below video I am standing at one of the Eastern Wall’s vantage points and looking across to the Western portion of the wall which is the most treacherous to climb. The highest point is on top of the Western Wall and designated as Fortress 13.
(In a companion video filmed 6 years ago I share the view from Fortress 13 looking to the Eastern wall as I viewed it then after climbing to the highest point.)
Standing at Fortress 13 of The Great Wall of China’s challenging Western Section located at Juyongguan Pass, this video records the spectacular view looking across the valley to the Eastern portion of The Great Wall of China.
Fortress 13 is the highest point. Six years ago I climbed to this point. Last month I returned and climbed the Eastern portion of the wall from where in a companion video I filmed the opposite view looking back to the Western portion.
On this prior visit I was motivated to climb the more difficult Western route when my guide advised that it was the route that Michael Jordan and Nicolas Cage chose on their visits to The Great Wall of China when he had guided them.
@1northcoin Several years ago a group of numismatist toured
The Great Wall. One of them threw from the edge a few off center
U.S. cents. To confuse future archaeologist. Maybe you could do
the same.
@Tibor said: @1northcoin Several years ago a group of numismatist toured
The Great Wall. One of them threw from the edge a few off center
U.S. cents. To confuse future archaeologist. Maybe you could do
the same.
I did learn an interesting numismatic subject related to China. Ancient Chinese coins often were round with a square hole in the middle. I was told that the ancient Chinese believed that the earth was square and the heavens round (or maybe it was vice-versa) and that was the reason for the coin being round and the hole being square.
OK, then to take it one step further to modern times, I was separately told that the two main structures built for the Beijing Olympics were designed to replicate this round and square yin and yang. The "Birds Nest" being round and the "Ice Cube" being square. FWIW both structures are still in place and can be seen today.
Everybody Loves Pandas.
Last month, after climbing the Great Wall of China and paying a visit to The Forbidden City, the itinerary in Beijing China included a Panda encounter at the Beijing Zoo. In this below video the Panda comes up and approaches me before retreating back.
The Giant Panda has a thumb similar to that of a human which is not found in other bears.
In the below video, watch as a Panda at the Beijing Zoo in China uses his thumb to pluck and strip bamboo leaves off of a bamboo branch.
This “sixth toe” in their front paws forms from a special bone in their wrists called the Seamus bone. As seen in this video that I took on a prior visit to the Beijing Zoo, the Panda uses its opposable thumb to grasp and pull off the bamboo leaves and then shove them into its mouth to eat,
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Everybody Loves Pandas.
Last month, after climbing the Great Wall of China and paying a visit to The Forbidden City, the itinerary in Beijing China included a Panda encounter at the Beijing Zoo. In this below video the Panda comes up and approaches me before retreating back.
The Giant Panda has a thumb similar to that of a human which is not found in other bears.
In the below video, watch as a Panda at the Beijing Zoo in China uses his thumb to pluck and strip bamboo leaves off of a bamboo branch.
This “sixth toe” in their front paws forms from a special bone in their wrists called the Seamus bone. As seen in this video that I took on a prior visit to the Beijing Zoo, the Panda uses its opposable thumb to grasp and pull off the bamboo leaves and then shove them into its mouth to eat,
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Juyongguan Great Wall Pass is the first of three impregnable passes in The Great Wall of China. The below video was filmed last month in conjunction with climbing The Great Wall of China at this north pass to Beijing.
Positioned 37 miles north of Beijing’s center The Great Wall of China at this juncture protected the city from Mongol invasions during the Ming Dynasty when it was built in its present form by the first Ming Emperor who had moved the Capital of China from Nanking a/k/a Nanjing to Peking a/k/a Beijing in the early 1400s prior to Columbus's discovery of America.
Even before China was united by its first Emperor Qin circa 200 BC who is given credit for first building The Great Wall of China by linking together many smaller walls, a form of the wall at this location had been erected centuries prior.
In this below video I am standing at one of the Eastern Wall’s vantage points and looking across to the Western portion of the wall which is the most treacherous to climb. The highest point is on top of the Western Wall and designated as Fortress 13.
(In a companion video filmed 6 years ago I share the view from Fortress 13 looking to the Eastern wall as I viewed it then after climbing to the highest point.)
Below is the companion video from 6 years ago.
Standing at Fortress 13 of The Great Wall of China’s challenging Western Section located at Juyongguan Pass, this video records the spectacular view looking across the valley to the Eastern portion of The Great Wall of China.
Fortress 13 is the highest point. Six years ago I climbed to this point. Last month I returned and climbed the Eastern portion of the wall from where in a companion video I filmed the opposite view looking back to the Western portion.
On this prior visit I was motivated to climb the more difficult Western route when my guide advised that it was the route that Michael Jordan and Nicolas Cage chose on their visits to The Great Wall of China when he had guided them.
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Here are some added stills. First, from last month's venture climbing the East Side:
And these from six years ago when climbing the more challenging West Side with its steeper steps and higher heights:
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@1northcoin Several years ago a group of numismatist toured
The Great Wall. One of them threw from the edge a few off center
U.S. cents. To confuse future archaeologist. Maybe you could do
the same.
I did learn an interesting numismatic subject related to China. Ancient Chinese coins often were round with a square hole in the middle. I was told that the ancient Chinese believed that the earth was square and the heavens round (or maybe it was vice-versa) and that was the reason for the coin being round and the hole being square.
OK, then to take it one step further to modern times, I was separately told that the two main structures built for the Beijing Olympics were designed to replicate this round and square yin and yang. The "Birds Nest" being round and the "Ice Cube" being square. FWIW both structures are still in place and can be seen today.
Everybody Loves Pandas.
Last month, after climbing the Great Wall of China and paying a visit to The Forbidden City, the itinerary in Beijing China included a Panda encounter at the Beijing Zoo. In this below video the Panda comes up and approaches me before retreating back.
Share here the experience.
The Giant Panda has a thumb similar to that of a human which is not found in other bears.
In the below video, watch as a Panda at the Beijing Zoo in China uses his thumb to pluck and strip bamboo leaves off of a bamboo branch.
This “sixth toe” in their front paws forms from a special bone in their wrists called the Seamus bone. As seen in this video that I took on a prior visit to the Beijing Zoo, the Panda uses its opposable thumb to grasp and pull off the bamboo leaves and then shove them into its mouth to eat,
Here are some still shots from the most recent visit to the Beijing Zoo's Pandas:
And here are photos from the prior visit to Beijing Zoo's Pandas:
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East bound AMTRAK had to stop as there was junk on the tracks, the west bound passed by slowly..
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Cool pictures! Kind of compliments the set I bought a year or two ago:
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That’s actually a really cool picture!
Is that a view from your house?
That’s a cool view! 😎
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I haven’t logged in for a full week, it feels like I’ve been gone for a month or two!
Great pictures everybody!
Here’s my bird out in the car
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