We got food, went home and signed up for a trip to the great wall, that icon of China. Tuesday we awoke early and got on a bus to see if indeed building a really big wall was the best way to keep out immigrants. We got to the wall, and judging from the great numbers of Mongolian farmers that chased me with over-priced chopsticks, I would have to say that there has to be a better solution to immigration. China ended up annexing Mongolia for a time...
After hiking on the great wall, or running from the Mongolian farmers, we reached the end of the section our group was doing. There where two ways down:
A long and rather boring looking walk down a stone path or
A quarter-mile long, hundreds of feet tall zip line over a reservoir of green water
Although we have all heard council against ziplining in developing nations, it all looked safe enough and the harnesses where all Petzls. (Or Petzl knock-offs, but if they were they were really good knock-offs) I couldn't help but giggle all the way down.
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