COOEE ON THE GREAT WALL

Cooee! (IPA /ku:'i:/) is a shout used in the Australian Outback mainly to attract attention, find missing people, or indicate one's own location. When done correctly - loudly and shrilly - a call of "cooee" can carry over a considerable distance.

We had left Auntie Bev under a tree to rest a few towers back and walked on a little further. I sent off a cooee to her and were answered by a neighbour - a New Zealand neighbour who recognised the 'cooee'. As it turned out he was a friend of a friend of a friend (of course)! These things happen when you travel - the world sure is a small place!

So, welcome to the Great Wall of China. This is the Jinshanling section near Simatai. No idea what the inscription says, but I will ask Ming our Chinese teacher to translate for me one day.

As you can see from the pics this is part of the Wall is in it's natural state with not much renovation happening here.
It was magnificent!
Below is my favourite photo of the wall showing how the wall continues from one mountain to the other with the towers built on right on top of each peak.
The leaves were just turning and the scenery was beautiful, marred slightly by the smog that is blow in from Beijing.
This part of the wall was over two hours travel from Beijing which was heavy with smog that day. We travelled the whole way hoping that it would clear at the Wall. Unfortunately that wasn't the case but it was still magnificent.
Bev and I bought hiking sticks, Allan thought it unnecessary, but we girls were very pleased to have them on the STEEP STEEP steps!

And there were hundreds of them, they just kept coming and coming.
.....and coming...
Every now and then we had a little bit of down hill,
And a rest here and there.
Phew!! It was great to walk the Great Wall at Jinshanling :)