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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 10 > Across China’s delicate dragon

Across China’s delicate dragon

The Great Wall is an eye-opening experience for tourists

By Susan Spano / The Bulletin
August 10, 2008

BADALING, China — At Badaling, the Great Wall rides the ridgelines like a dragon, its gray brick scales glinting and its crenelated spine writhing. Built at a strategic pass in the mountains north of Beijing, it crosses stout gates, plunges into narrow defiles, climbs back up to the....

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