Published on Feb, 2025
This was a great tour with a great guide - my driver was Mr.Ping from Leo’s private tour company and he was awesome!!
I booked the tour last minute (11pm the night before) so I was worried that no one would even see my reservation. However, Mr. Ping reached out to me in the morning to confirm all the details. He came and picked me up from my hotel lobby at 1pm. From there we headed to the wall. The drive there is even awesome! You pass a huge lake and can also see the Mutianyu section of the wall as well as some others. The mountains are also gorgeous. There was a nice gas station that we stopped at for the restroom/snacks about 1h40m into the drive. (There was no toilet paper fyi). Then we drove the rest of the way to the wall. Mr. Ping knew a lot of interesting facts about the wall and also had fun stories from his own experiences. He also pointed out interesting things in Beijing (like an old city wall). Even though it was just him and I for the long drive (3 ish each way) it was not dull.
Once we got there, he was able to drive all the way up to the parking lot so we did not need to use the shuttle bus. After that, it was a little hike up to the wall. There seemed to be unlimited distances to go in either direction but we were limited by the sunset. Beautiful section of the wall.
Throughout the whole thing, Mr. Ping was a great photographer and was very encouraging.
The sunset was absolutely stunning.
I would 100% recommend this to anyone and would also specifically recommend Mr. Ping!