Which Great Wall is worth visiting, Mutianyu or Badaling?

The Badaling Great Wall is worth visiting.

The Mutianyu Great Wall is located in Huairou District, connected to Gubeikou in the east and Juyongguan in the west. It is 73 kilometers away from Beijing. The Mutianyu Great Wall is the barrier of the Huangling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty. One can imagine its importance to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is the essence of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty. The Mutianyu Great Wall enjoys the reputation at home and abroad as "the Great Wall of China, but Mutianyu is unique".

The Badaling Great Wall is located in the southwest of Yanqing County, Beijing, about 75 kilometers away from the urban area. Badaling is located at a strategic point and has high military value. Therefore, emperors of the past dynasties also attached great importance to the defense here. Since the early Ming Dynasty, they have continued to build the Great Wall. Reinforce the Great Wall here. Therefore, this section of the Great Wall is mostly built with stone strips and city bricks, which is very strong. There are also many wall platforms with different purposes along the city, which serve as the peripheral pass and defensive outpost of Juyong Pass. Square platforms were built every three to five hundred meters along the city, higher than the top of the wall. There are battlements around it, and there are various structures such as wall towers, enemy towers, and battle towers according to different functions.

Even Chairman Mao’s poem “He who has not visited the Great Wall is not a true man” is erected on the Badaling Great Wall. Therefore, in terms of fame, the Badaling Great Wall is more famous than the Mutianyu Great Wall.

The Badaling Great Wall is very steep. Some steps are almost straight up and down. They are so steep that there are handrails on both sides for tourists to hold on. Friends who are afraid of heights basically don’t have to worry about climbing. The average person climbs three steps. You can’t walk more than four stations. If young people have good physical strength, they can come to Badaling to seek the following thrills.

The Badaling Great Wall is famous all over the world and is very famous. Basically there are huge crowds of people every day. The mature tourist routes, equipment and services of Badaling Great Wall are more suitable for the majority of tourists.