After two pretty long walking days, we decided to take some time off this morning and keep the walk fairly short. We skipped the breakfast at the hotel since it doesn’t seem to give us the energy we need.  We went to a local dumplings (Bao Zi) restaurant instead. Well – not exactly a restaurant, but they have really good meat dumplings there that fill up the stomach, and give  a lot of energy.

We walked an enjoyable 14 km, walking mostly along the Great Wall. We walked several kilometres on the top of The Wall too. The umbrellas we mentioned yesterday, were used for about half of the walk and they worked well, keeping us out of the direct sun.

Here is a picture of Jon in a fortress which we passed yesterday.  As you can see, it is half filled with sand.