The myth that the Great Wall is visible with the naked eye from the moon was finally laid to rest in 2003, when China's first astronaut Yang Liwei failed to see the barrier from space." (Beijing Lonely Planet 2005). Below are pictures from the 2250m long granite section of the wall at Mutianyu, where I went up by cable car and down by luge!
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Great Wall
"The original 'wall' was begun over 2000 years ago during the Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) when China was unified under Emperor Qin. Separate walls, constructed by independent kingdoms to keep out marauding nomads, were linked together. The effort required hundreds of thousands of workers, many of them political prisioners... An estimated 180 million cubic metres of rammed earth was used to form the core of the original Wall, and legend has it that one of the building materials used were the bones of deceased workers...The wall never really did perform its function as an impenetrable line of defense...
The myth that the Great Wall is visible with the naked eye from the moon was finally laid to rest in 2003, when China's first astronaut Yang Liwei failed to see the barrier from space." (Beijing Lonely Planet 2005). Below are pictures from the 2250m long granite section of the wall at Mutianyu, where I went up by cable car and down by luge!
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The myth that the Great Wall is visible with the naked eye from the moon was finally laid to rest in 2003, when China's first astronaut Yang Liwei failed to see the barrier from space." (Beijing Lonely Planet 2005). Below are pictures from the 2250m long granite section of the wall at Mutianyu, where I went up by cable car and down by luge!
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