The culmination of our trip to China was a visit to the Great Wall of China. This was at the Badaling section, the section that every tourists goes to. We couldn't find transportation to the other parts, so we had to make do with this. It was impressive. For a time it did keep out the Mongol hordes from the North but even these walls were breached. The Mongols were a mighty fighting machine but their expertise were limited to battle on the steppes of Mongolia and Central Asia. It wasnt' when they conquered another rival tribe who were great engineers and knew about seige warfare that they had the knowledge on how to breach the walls of China. These stretch for miles and miles in the North of China.
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