"It was a great experience and we will remember it forever."

What our heroes are talking about their China tour experience
and their host, the Great Wall Adventure Club

Don't forget to visit our Hall of Fame to see their photos.
Here is a snail mail of Thank-You Letter from the Brewsters, guest family from USA
 

	"Delivered as promised" Aug 9, 2011 "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" Jul 11, 2011 "Wonderful visit to Beijing and Xi'an, climbing..." Jul 9, 2011

Just wanted to let you know that my team had a great time! They said the guide was really good!! :)

Mayumi Whitworth
Google, Inc., USA

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I want to thank you and your team for helping us completes our recent charity trek in China 2011. Your guides, Mr. Chaney, Vivian and Li made all the difference and went out of their way to help us complete this challenge
We couldn't have done it without your help.

You can be justly proud of the people that work in your organization and on behalf of British Airways London Terminal 5 a big thank you.

I strongly recommend using Great Wall Adventure to any other organization and I will be honored promoting this company for further Treks in China.

I hope our paths we will meet again in the future.

Ray Mausolle
Health & Safety Co-ordinator
British Airways
T5 Baggage Services LHR
South Airside Report (Arrivals Level)
Terminal 5, Wellington Road Hounslow, London

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I highly recommend taking a tour with this company. They are very organized, and make the whole process very easy.

I really enjoyed the 1AA day trip, the wild sections of the wall are amazing, and a good challenge. If I had more time, I would have like to try one of the multi-day trips. Our guide Connie was also great, she was very knowledgeable whenever we had questions about the wall, very friendly and her English was very good.

I was outside of to pickup and drop off area, and when we returned to Beijing from the trip, I needed to get a cab back. Terrance and his girlfriend both helped me get a cab back to my hotel, negotiated a price for me and told the driver where I needed to go. This was totally above and beyond what they needed to do, and I really appreciated it!

Again highly recommended!

Pete Gemakas
Research In Motion Ltd - BlackBerry
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada

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We just completed the Jiankou to Mutianyu hike with Leo on Monday 15th of November 2010 and I wanted to say how wonderful the trip was - your sight mentions it will be the highlight of our staying China and it most certainly was.

It is a memory I will hold forever and while I found the hike challenging physically I cant imagine seeing the wall any other way. This 1 day hike was the only way to really see the wall.

Leo was fantastic .. very knowledge, friendly and his English was exceptional.

You really made our family trip once in a lifetime event - I will have no hesitation in recommending you to anybody.

Lana King
American Express International, Singapore

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Thank you for an amazing experience and incredible day hiking the Jiankou to Mutianyu section of the Wall. Every part of the tour was fantastic - your courtesy and professionalism from the very first email through to being dropped off at our hotel after the day on the Wall made every moment enjoyable. In particular, I am emailing to praise our tour guide, Bill.

By sharing his vast knowledge of the Wall during our ride in and while hiking the wall, Bill make the journey even more interesting and enjoyable. Bill has a wonderfully positive attitude and was extremely helpful and encouraging during every minute of our trip. In addition to recommending the Great Wall Adventure Club to friends and colleagues, I have also recommended that they ask for Bill as a guide.

I'd like to say thank you again for making our experience absolutely incredible!

Melissa K. Siekierski
Ernst & Young. LLP
155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606, USA

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I wanted to send a quick note of to say thank you for an amazing adventure. The entire day was perfect thanks to our tour guide, Bill. He was so knowledgeable about the wall’s different sections and history and he certainly made the experience fun and interesting. I will certainly recommend this excursion to friends and family and I will be certain they ask for Bill for an outstanding experience!!! Thanks,

Mary Zabjek
Gartner | Healthcare
USA

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Brilliant tour, highly recommended. Nice to explore the unrestored parts of the wall and be the only tourist there! Thanks so much for a great trip :)

Kristy Carstairs, hostelworld.com

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I wanted to take a moment and let you know that Connie did a wonderful job on our tour last week. We had a great time and my kids just loved her. I am attaching a picture for Connie - please pass this along to her if you feel it's appropriate. Please tell her thank you for us. Also, let me know if you ever need any recommendations - we were highly satisfied with our tour experience.

Julie Ward, USA

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Hi Wei Yong,

You are so kind! What a lovely gift and Steven loves it! Thank you so much.

Wei Yong, I hope you know that we really enjoyed having you as our guide. You are so knowledgeable, professional, fun and energetic! Just the right characteristics ideal for a guide! You are the best and I am happy to recommend you to friends.

Anyway, please let me know if there's anything I can do for you.
Best regards,

Susan Pieper-Bailey, USA

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We have just finished our trek and Beijing City Tour and I wanted to thank you for a great trip. We enjoyed ourselves very much. Of course the main thing is to have a good guide and Cheney was excellent. We have no complaints at all. he set the walking pace well. He knew the history. He knew people we met. He chose good routes and good walks, ordered good food, spoke good English and made our trip a success. We enjoyed his company and our time with him. Thank you. You can use him as a guide in your company with full confidence.

I would also like to mention the driver. We knew him as Shi Fu. He was also first rate. While he spoke no English, he had a good smile, was always on time, found the best places to drop and meet us, drove well in difficult traffic and was an excellent driver. Although we could not speak to each other we enjoyed our time with him.

Thanks for a great trip. We will have no hesitation to recommend you and your company in the future.

Graeme Blackwood, USA 

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Hi Vivian

Our Great Wall Hike was a fantastic adventure.
Connie was excellent and it was great to have her around for the day.

Gunjan, Australia 

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Thanks for all your help and thank you for your cell number, that's most helpful, and thank you to you and all your staff for all your professionalism shown to me this week so far, I am most appreciative.

I had the pleasure of spending the day today with your guide, Alan Lee today, and we had a brilliant day in Badaling and the Ming Tomb. Alan sorted out my Hotel also.

You are very lucky to have the guides with such talent as Connie, Mavis and Alan. I feel like I have a few new friends in Beijing, You, Connie, Mavis and Alan!!!

David Wilson, Ireland 

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Hello! My fiancé and I went on one of your private car trips with a guide. We started at Gubeikou and ended at Jinshanling on Monday, May 23. Our guide was Lin Quansong (English name "Bill") and our driver was Mr. Yao.
Lin Quansong was a FANTASTIC guide. He answered all our questions about the Great Wall and its history. He was patient when I wanted to stop to take photos (I have photos in an art gallery in the USA and love to take pictures).

Lin Quansong has a cheerful, positive attitude and was fun to hike with. I would HIGHLY recommend him as a guide; if I owned a travel business (I am a teacher), I would want guides like Lin Quansong to ensure my clients had the best experience possible with the tour. Thank you so much for assigning Lin Quansong as our guide. In addition, Mr. Yao was a careful driver and very friendly. :-) Thank you for reading my comments.

Beth Krueger, USA

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I was part of a group of 14 that did the Great Wall camping hike on Nov 25th and 26th. I am writing to let the manager of the Beijing operation know how pleased the entire group was with Cheney Wu, our tour leader. He not only was a fun, excitable tour guide with a great sense of humor but he went above and beyond in make sure that we were appropriately accommodated for camping outside in the cold. He ordered two sleeping bags for each person and this was completely necessary for us to not freeze to death. We appreciate his foresight as we slept comfortably (well, as comfortable as anyone could in such cold weather!) and would not have been able to do so with just one sleeping bag. I would highly recommend Cheney to anyone wanting to hike and camp on the Great Wall. He was super patient, knowledgeable, and fun. Thank you for this amazing experience.

Christen, USA

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I had a wonderful trip with Bill and Cheney (?), for the Ming Tomb and Great Wall hike. Both are wonderful and knowledgeable guide. The drivers are very friendly too and offered me advice on what to eat and where to go. Thanks !

Edmund Chan, Singapore

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This tour was very good and Andrea took very good care of me. Allan was very personable and over the course of our conversation he indicated that he also knew about other things I wanted to do and offered his services as guide/companion for the next day as well as transfer to the airport. I was very pleased with Allan's ability and attention.

Linda Fenimore, USA

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Thanks again for the spontaneous arrangement last week!

This is just to inform you that the tour with Cheney worked out very well. He even organised a donkey to get all the equipment etc. up on the wall where we stayed over night in tents. It was a good mixture of old/natural and rehabilitated/touristic parts of the wall.

To sum up: Well done! Thanks for your good organisation and excellent support!

 
Matthias, Germany

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I am writing to let you know that we were very impressed with your organisation- we had a lovely holiday.

Lisa , (our tour guide), and our driver, in Kumming were exceptionally kind, friendly and helpful.
They were a pleasure to be with.

The tour of the caves and stone forest were particularly impressive, interesting, good exercise and fun.
Lisa and the driver also made the City tour a very interesting and an enjoyable day.
Their help at hotels, golf courses and the airport helped to make situations relaxed and comfortable.

Lyndsay, your tour guide in Hainan was also very helpful and friendly, and the City Tour made a pleasant day.

Thank you organising our holiday so well.

Warmest regards

Yvonne, UK

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Hi All,

Well I am now back behind my desk and only have the memories & photographs of my time on The Wall.

However I wanted to pass on my thanks to all of you for your help in making it one of the most amazing trips I have taken.

From the prompt and courteous emails I have received to the Amazing Fun I have with Quansong on The Wall.

Quansong was great fun to Walk with a great knowledge of the history and dates about the wall and always full of energy. His fun attitude and great smile keep me entertained and motivated along the way!

I have already had colleagues asking about my trip and will have no hesitation about recommending Great Wall Adventure Club and Quansong to anyone.

Thanks all and I look forward to visiting again in the future.

Regards,

David Wareh, USA

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Wanted to write and let you know how much we enjoyed the trip before too much time has slipped by. Rarely do I deal with a contractor and feel so satisfied as I did with your and your co-workers' service.

Would've liked to have met but I'm guessing you're very busy. I picture you with the blue-tooth working all the time.

The service in Xi'an was especially exceptional. The train ride was an interesting experience. When we went to the station for the trip from Xi'an back to Beijing there was a dangerous situation with everyone trying to enter the station at once. Welcome to China. We made it fine.

I envy that Ricky as he is 33 years old and it seems he is getting in a lot of globetrotting.

We went to a restaurant, believe it was named DaDong, for Peking duck. Dinner was around US $50. It was OK, a little short on duck. Few days later we bought half a duck from a food stall on the street for about US $2. It was delicious. It had been cooked over a charcoal fire.

I have recommended www.greatwalladventure.com to everyone I have talked to about my vacation.

Thank-you for the excellent experience. We may be in touch again.

Al & Dang Ritcher, USA

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I and my family would like to thank you for arranging a great trip for us. Everything was perfect - the transfers, tours and of course the accommodation.

Please pass our regards to Connie – she is a wonderful guide and also was very helpful in accommodating our requests during the trip.

Sivaramakrishna Komperla, India

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Thanks so much for a really great trip to China. All of your arrangements worked like clock work. I appreciate
the use of the phone and especially the fact that you stayed in close contact with me.

My travels around the world have affirmed for me that people are basically good and caring. All of my guides were outstanding in every way and I would be happy to welcome all of you into my home at any time.

I had one minor mishap when I returned and was driving back to my home from Houston. A very large bird slammed into my windshield totally shattering the windshield and peppering me with glass. I survived just fine but it was scary. My family joked that I went all the way to China without a single incident and then got attacked by a bird at home. HA!

Anna Fisher, USA

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Just to say thank you for a wonderful trip. Everything was very well organised.

The guides and drivers were fantastic. In particular, Cathy’s English is excellent, and her stories entertaining, and Jo is incredibly welcoming, flexible, and friendly.

I have already recommended your company to my friends and families, and will continue to do so as more people ask me how the trip was.

Regards,
Marylou, Australia

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I just wanted to thank your organization for being so accommodating to my friend today. She had an awesome day, and it was made that much better because you were able to pick her up and arrange for her transportation at the end of the day. I think that sort of thing can be pretty stressful for newcomers to Beijing (especially when they only landed 8 hours earlier). Thanks so much for everything! I'll certainly recommend your group to other visitors and friends.

Best,
Sarah, American working in Beijing

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Tom was excellent. Went beyond expectation, showed knowledge of City and Country and understanding of his client's needs. Owen was also very good.  

Richard Donald, USA

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My son and I thoroughly enjoyed our hike despite it being during the hottest days Beijing had experienced since 1951. The parts of the wall hiked were spectacular and we were very grateful for the isolation and the lack of other tourists. Our guide was fantastic and was very patient with me especially as the heat slowed me down.

 Robyn Enderlin, Australia

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Leo was a fantastic guide. He was very knowledgeable and helpful throughout the tour. Everything was great.

Sara, USA

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I made the trip, which was awesome, thanks again! Also our guide Jon was very nice, we definitely had a good time discovering the great wall because of your company and his assistance!

Dominique Lagloire, living in Japan

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Hi there, I just wanted to thank you for making the arrangements for our trip to Beijing. Our guide Haze and our driver (sorry but we didn't catch his name so well) were really excellent and looked after us very well. I would like to recommend your company to anyone I know who is travelling to Beijing in the future. I will complete the customer satisfaction form when back in the UK which will be in a couple of weeks. Thanks again!

Sarah Westbarn, UK

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I found this tour company the best in terms of tour guide ability to explain and speaking English as well as help during tour, transport facility was also very nice. I found no difficulty during this tour and enjoyed a lot. I am very much satisfied from your service and have recommended your company to some of my other colleagues who also wanted to visit great wall.

Mahmood, Pakistan

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Thank you for your organisation of Tours, Transfers and Accommodation. I will definitely recommend your website and travel information to any of my friends or colleagues travelling to China.

The driver was good and the airport pickup was simple and easy, the tour guide, Tom, was punctual, service was excellent, he was friendly and helpful and provided a lot of useable information, including about using the subways, which I then did over the next few days.

The hotel in Shanghai was of a very good standard and the service was great.

Regards,

Nicole, Australia

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I apologize that it has taken so long since my hike to send this along, but I just returned to the U.S. last week and have been trying to catch up on everything following my two weeks in China.

However, I wanted to be sure to send a note to the Great Wall Adventure Club to say THANK YOU! I had an amazing time on our hike from Jinshanling to Simatai on March 29. It was easily the highlight of my trip and I could not have had a better (or more exhausting) time. The experience was amazing and I cannot thank your organization enough.

I also wanted to send a special thanks to our guide Judy, who was equally awesome. She was very knowledgeable and was accommodating to everyone in the group. I am not sure if it is possible, but if you could provide me with her email I would love to send her a personalized thank you. I certainly understand if you cannot share that information. And, if that is the case, please send her my thanks. I would greatly appreciate it.

Again, thank you so much to your organization and to Judy. The Great Wall hike was definitely the highlight of my trip to China and should any of you find yourselves traveling to Washington, DC, I would be happy to return the favor!

Best regards,
Trevor Clark, Washington D.C., USA

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Dear Allan,

We are home safely, and busy with cutting grass and sorting photographs. Doreen has done a huge heap of washing!

We were enormously pleased to meet you, and especially to meet Mrs Yang. It made the whole trip much more personal, and we appreciate it very much.

I must comment on the young man who was our guide in Beijing. Apart from being a knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide, his concern to help us when we had the problem at the airport was exemplary. After all, the problem was my fault - though I am sure Qatar Airways used my non-confirmation as a cheaper alternative than simply saying the flight was overbooked. Andy treated us as though we were members of his family, and stayed with us until everything possible had been done to find us a bed for the night and to make sure we would be on the next plane.

All the guides did everything they could to make our visit to China a success, and we owe you a big debt of gratitude for the way you organised everything, especially at such short notice when we could not go to Tibet.

Thank you again. We wish you success in this Olympic year.

Please pass on our best wishes to Mrs Yang,

Sincerely,

Frank and Doreen, Australia

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Thank you for a most enjoyable tour! Ms. Aggie is an exceptional tour guide, and she was most knowledgeable, attentive and helpful. Mr. Wong is a very skilled and very prompt driver. Both Ms. Aggie and Mr. Wong worked very hard to ensure the success of our tour.

This tour far exceeded my every expectation. The next time I travel to Beijing, I believe that I will take the tour once again. My thanks to Great Wall Adventure Club and their outstanding employees, Ms. Aggie and Mr. Wong.

Regards,

Jim Lessner, USA

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Dear Club,

I'm writing to let you know how much our group enjoyed our hike last week. Both our driver and Cheney our guide were courteous and professional. Cheney was an excellent guide and happy to answer all our questions. Thanks again for helping us see the Great Wall this way.

Barbara Cohen, USA

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Terrence,

Back from our trip to Asia I just wanted to express my satisfaction with the trip to the great wall and particularly our tour guide Cheney.

Cheney did a great job in making those two days a great experience. He was very flexible to accommodate our needs.

I can fully recommend him.

Fabrice Braun, Switzerland

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Hi Terrance,


Had a great time on the hike and Haze did a great job explaining the wall as well as keeping us safe... It was a great tour and Haze did an excellent job... Thank you for your help setting up these tours!

Charles Choomngern, USA

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Dear Sophie,

We had such as good time in China with you. We will never forget you and all the amazing things you taught us.

We had thought of you many times since we left China. We wanted to send these photos to you of our time in China. We talk about all of the amazing things we saw with you.

We miss you!

The Brewsters - Amy, Joel, Toby and Sierra

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We had an amazing time during our Great Wall hike. Our guide was Michael Wei and he was a fantastic guide, very knowledgeable about the history of the Great Wall and China, spoke English very well and we enjoyed spending the day with him. We would definitely recommend the Great Wall Adventure Club! Thanks for the great experience.

Jason Marcus, USA

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We just want to let you know how delighted we were with our tour. Our tour guide Summer was excellent! She was extremely knowledgeable about Chinese history and culture, spoke excellent English, and was very attentive to our questions and needs, including holding on to us on the icy slopes of the Great Wall. Her bubbly personality helped make our day on the tour one we will never forget. Thank you!

Jeff and Rose Hetrick, USA

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"remerciements et envoi de photos muraille de chine

Thank's for this great day we spend with you on the great wall, fantastic feeling, very good organization, thanks a lot to Bruce , our tour guide.

I send you 10 photos about the small group composed of Zac,Robine, Colette,Bruce and me during this one-day hiking on 05/19, 2008."

Ange Baron, France

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"We are now back in Manila. Thank you for the wonderful tours your company has provided us while we were in Beijing. We enjoyed them very much. We hope to come back to Beijing in the future.

Please extend our heartfelt thanks to our superb tour guides -- Alan, Frank, Dillon, and most especially to Cris!

We will surely refer you to our friends who will also go to Beijing."

Erwin Salaveria, Phillipines

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"Hi Terrence,

Thanks so much for setting up a great tour. We had a wonderful week with Sophia. I will enthusiastically recommend your service to my friends! By the way, can you send me Sophia's address so that we can send her a thank you card? Thanks, Joel"

Joel & Amy, USA

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"This was a great and professional service from start to finish. I was going to be making my third trip to the Great Wall with a friend so I wanted to see a section I hadn't seen before. I found Great Wall Adventure Club just by doing a search on Google and was very happy with the experience. I booked a 1 day hiking trek from Jinshanling to Simatai which was a definitely not a cake-walk but beautiful. Our guide, Mao, was very cool and knowledgeable about every section of the wall. Even when we asked off-the-wall questions (no pun intended) he always had an answer. With a trans-pacific staff they were able to answer my emails at all hours and right away and they can book tours in all parts of China. They helped me with a Xi'an tour as well which I didn't end up booking b/c we didn't have time for it. Their prices are very reasonable and the best part about GWAC is that I got the feeling from them that they really had my best interest in mind instead of trying to "upsell" different tours to make a higher profit.

After having this great experience with the Wall I wouldn't hesitate to book one of their Tibet hiking treks or Yangtze/Three Gorges tours. "

Nicole, USA

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"I just wanted to write and say that we had a wonderful experience hiking and sleeping on the Great Wall. Cheney was our guide and he was fantastic. We had a lot of fun with him. The food and the service were also excellent. It was an amazing experience and I'm so glad that we chose the Great Wall Adventure Club to be our guide."

Cheers,

Ryan and Carrie, USA

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"When my 13 year old son learned we may visit the Great Wall on our trip to China, his request was to go when there wouldn't be crowds of people. My trip to the section at Badaling 10 years ago was crowded, and I was sure it wasn't the Great Wall experience he wanted. An internet search led me to your website and a day hike from Jinshanling to Simatai looked like the perfect solution. And it was! When we arrived at the Wall around 9 AM, we were the only people there. It was fantastic! The view of the Wall snaking in both directions, with not another sole in site
was truly breathtaking. We hiked for 5 hours and probably saw another 20 tourists that day. Fernando, our guide, was the best. His English was great, and we enjoyed his insight into the history of the Wall and daily life in China. We took several bottles of water each, and a picnic lunch. Sitting on the Wall, sharing a meal, with the mountains
surrounding you, you have time to actually pinch yourself to make sure you're not dreaming. After our hiking challenge, we chose to end the trip with a zip line down. Our day on the Wall was the highlight of our two weeks in China. If you're looking for an outdoor adventure that can captivate anyone of any age, I highly recommend this trip!"

Tiffany Willard
Circulation Manager
Points North Magazine
USA

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"Thanks much for giving us the opportunity for a spectacular hike on the Great Wall! We really enjoyed the time spent with our guide, Cheney. He was very personable and his knowledge of the history of the Wall was very beneficial. I would recommend your company without reservation to anyone considering a visit to one of the world’s treasures. By the way, I don’t know the name of our driver but his driving skills are exceptional. The drive to and from the Wall was almost as much fun as the hike!"

Allan Bloom, USA

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I just wanted to comment on the hike we recently took with your tour group on March 20th.

Lee was our guide and his was brilliant. Great language skills, we never had any difficultly understanding him throughout the tour. Very impressive knowledge of the great wall and the sections that we hiked as well.

The success of tours is very dependent, as you know, on the quality of the guides and we just wanted to pass on to you how great Lee was.

Ian, Canada

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"Hello,
Sorry it took so long to send these pictures. We had some trouble with our camera storage but we managed to get a backup sent to us. Here are about 14 pictures of our hike. The hike was absolutely amazing under blue skies, and the greatwalladventures.com tour was definitely the right choice. We saw our friends pictures of their trip to Badaling wall and it didn't even compare to our authenticate experience. Their pictures showed a newly rebuilt wall while our experience felt like we were standing on ancient history. It was the highlight of our 5 week trip. Our guide told very interesting stories along the way. The driver took very good care of us and even detoured past the Olympic stadium on the drive back to Beijing so that we could have a look at it. We were very glad to have chosen GreatWallAdventures.com  for our one in a lifetime adventure."

Ed, Canada

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"I want to thank you for your help in setting up my Great Wall hike of April 19. Upon arriving in Beijing I called Lisa and we chatted for a few minutes then Cheney called about 5 min. later. Cheney was my guide and was very competent. He kept the pace moving and was sensitive to my not doing this every day as well as his being twice my age. All went very well, if I could do that hike two or three times a week it would be a terrific and healthy activity. With considerably fewer visitors than Badaling I was most pleased. I visited Badaling in 1992 and it was very crowded. My fellow tour participants went to Badaling and described great crowds. With the unrestored nature, great vistas, fewer people and some good physical exercise, and history as related by Cheney it made for the highlight of my trip to China. I am indeed pleased that this was on the penultimate day of my China journey, it made the whole trip move at an upwards curve with JinShanLing to Simatai the top of the curve.

Thanks again for your help! Whenever possible I will recommend this to others who plan to travel to China.

Michael Merry, UK

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"We had the best time on the wall!!!! I would highly recommend this trip to anyone. Can you do me a favor? Our guide on the Great Wall was Lee. While there, a farmer was hand carving sketches in stone at Simatais ( the start of our tour, the end for others). If possible, I would like him to purchase 3 and mail it to me. I will gladly pay him for the item, trouble, and postage.

Thanks,"

Wes, USA

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"We had an absolutely wonderful day with Michael. I don't have access to email now, so this is short, but we LOVED it. Thanks very much!!"

Lynn, USA

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"Jonah and I are back in the USA .. with many fond memories of our two weeks and China.. and especially fine members of you all and the wonderful hospitality and assistance you gave to us.. You made our time in Beijing truly memorable..  Hope all of you are well.. and thank you again.. If any of you come to the States one day, please let us return the hospitality!!"

Hank Marsh, USA

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"We are back from our magnificent trip to China. Just loved it.

I will be more than happy to be a reference. I had actually intended to write a note to thank you and tell you how much we enjoyed our day but have been so busy.

Our hike on the wall was certainly one of the highlights of our trip.
Although the webpage says it is demanding we certainly managed it fine and we are 60!

Thanks for having the availability of the hike. It made it so much more enjoyable having a driver who was very good driver and a pleasant man and of course Lee who was a pleasure to be with.

Great great day.

Cheers for now!"

Gillian, USA

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"I enjoyed the hike and the guide was great!  Thanks again!"

Jeff, USA

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"We had a wonderful time hiking with our guide, Lee. The rain did not deter us, and we got some amazing photos of the wall in the mist. We have attached 3 photos. A few more will follow in another e-mail. Thank you for an unforgettable experience!!"

Milinda, Edward, and Maggie (age 3)
San Rafael, California

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"Just a quick not to tell you that we had a wonderful hike with Bruce, one of your guides, last month and he was terrific. We traveled with my with 2 children, 8 & 10 year old, and also my 68 year old mother. We found the hike from Jinshanling to Simatai very challenging but so beautiful. It was a great experience and we will remember it forever."

Jennifer, USA

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"I just came back from Beijing and Shanghai for my 10 day trip. I would give the Eastern Morning Sun Light Downtown Youth Hostel a two-thumb-up Eastern Morning Sun Light Downtown Youth Hostel. The guys I met were so friendly and they took care of my luggage when I had to travel to leave Beijing for Shenyang for three days.

I also joined the Great Wall Hiking Tour from Jinshanling to Simatai. great wall hiking tour. It took me about three hours to finish the jogging. I was so excited to see the Wall and walked the same way that ancient soldiers did. Fantastic tour!

Have fun with those great guys for the Great Wall tour!"

Daniel, Canada

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