Charles Chan

The name literally means "Eight Great Sites" and it houses eight Buddhist temples within three mountains. You can imagine how big the attraction is. You can smell the burning incense everywhere. Due to it being a Buddhist destination, there are plenty of vegetarian restaurants nearby.

The Great Wall, being the longest manmade structure in the world, inspires many imaginations and aspirations. Putting those aside, the structure was built with the blood, sweat, and tears of the Chinese. It demands great respect for their sacrifices.

Our first day was just used to orient ourselves and buy train tickets but we managed to visit some local markets and mall. We did a LOT of walking on this day-perhaps more than any other day in this trip, not to mention the (really)hot weather.