Jiankou Great Wall, Huairou, China

Jiankou Great Wall, Huairou, China

Jiankou Great Wall is located about 30 km away from Huairou County, outskirt of Beijing. The mountains around are quite different from each other. Jiankou Great Wall above steep mountains and cliffs seems more magnificent, as well as more advantageous. Mutianyu Great Wall is on the east side of it, and Dazhenyu Great Wall on the west.

Jiankou Great Wall got its name because it is W-shaped, looking like a full bow buckling an arrow. Jiankou Great Wall is one of the most dangerous sections of the Great Walls of China. It lists the most times on all kinds of painting albums of the Great Wall. It has always been a hot spot for the photographs of the Great Walls of China.

On the top of Jiankou Great Wall, you can watch the Dragon Pool and the ancient ruins of the Great Wall brick kilns. On the Foot of the mountain, spring water gushing out from the ground comes together into a lake, which is currently the North’s largest rainbow trout farm.

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