I’m sitting by the Great Wall now, looking to the South from a fairly high vantage point, I can see the tops of a lot of smaller hills in the distance. The corn on the cob is ready to be harvested and the long leaves on the plants are dry. […]

A few firsts today. For the first time ever I saw red peppers growing in a field. Naa har jeg vaert der pepper’n gror! Norwegian expression. A week ago, I was offered lots of chestnuts while walking. Today I saw farmers digging their peanut harvest out of the ground. I […]

Got back to the Great Wall area at about noon, and after a hot meal started walking. It was very steep and there was dense foliage where I first tried to get on The Wall. I started fighting my way through the foliage and thorns. Suddenly a thorn went deeply […]

I’m sitting in a very nice waiting room in Qinhuangdao waiting for the bus to take me back to the Great Wall. As you might have noticed, there has not been that much activity on this site lately and the map has not been updated while I have been out […]

The last few days have been pretty wet. A cold wind also swept in from the North making them colder. The definite highlight of the past days was going back to Panjiakou, which my brother, two friends and I visited in 1998. Panjiakou is a very special place as the […]

I spent yesterday making and uploading pictures for the next stretch, and didn’t go to bed until 5am. As I have decided to walk shorter distances the next few days, I waited until the afternoon before setting off. Some crucial Autumn months are coming now where I need to get […]

I returned from Beijing to base camp in Zunhua on Saturday. The bus ride was surprisingly fast and comfortable. No queues, no smoking inside the bus – all went to plan. I hope that is a good sign for the rest of my walk. On Sunday I walked 15 kilometres […]

My agonisingly slow 6 week wait is hopefully coming to an end. I want to return to walking the Great Wall. The mending process was so slow the first four weeks, that I thought it might be something more serious than ‘just’ a fracture. Luckily, the foot has recovered a […]

I have added 8 new videos from January this year when I was walking close to the Yellow River. You can see the videos here on the Great Wall Route page. The videos are located to the left of the current map view. Zoom out by clicking on the minus […]