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In 1368 AD, Mutianyu Great Wall was built by Xu Da who is the main general for Zhuyuanzhang in the Great Wall ruins of Northern Qi Dynasty. Linked to Gubeikou in the east and Juyongguan in the west,the section of the Great Wall is the military hub defensing of the capitalsince ancient times. There are several famous watchtowers such as Zhengguantai, Dajiaolou, Yingfeidaoyang,Jiankou and Beijingjie, which has profound historical and cultural values. Surrounded by the mountains, the Greening rate of the Great Wall reaches 98%, and its scenery is beautiful. Known for its gorgeous scenery, Mutianyu is one of the essence in the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty. Mutianyuhas the characteristics of the fresh air, sided embrasure, peculiar guards, intensive watchtowers, the strong feeling of three-dimensional and the existing of the inside and outside branch. The Closed Tram, Speed slide, the China dream stone sity, the Great Wall hotel, Yisonglou restaurant are constructed inthe tourist area, so its facilities and function are perfect.The tourist area was added to the national 5A scenic spot list by the National Tourism Administration of China in 2011. In June 28, 2014,the Mutianyu Great Wallintegrated tourism service area put into use. The integrated tourism service area, having service functions including a visitor center, the Great Wall Culture Exhibition Center, and catering and tourism souvenirs street,covers an area of 20 acres.In this way, Mutianyu Great Wall will provide a better travel experience for visitors.
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  • Seaside18901008156
    3 contributions
    You must see Great Wall!!
    If you thinking about all of those famous but not worth to visit places, this is NOT Great Wall in China. This place is breathtaking, worth any effort to get there. The only obvious minus is crowd. Almost every single day is full of people. (Visited in 2019)
    Visited October 2022
    Traveled with friends
    Written January 20, 2023
  • Neils S
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands1 contribution
    Great wall of China!
    Very amazing experience visiting the great wall of China! We have a day tour to this incredible ancient building, the architecture are unbelievable as the same the history. Our guide took us to the less crowd area and got the best photos ever.
    Visited February 2023
    Written February 21, 2023
  • margitmargalit
    Ann Arbor, Michigan217 contributions
    Quite commercialized but well worth visiting
    Of course the great wall is a have to have been to. This part idles quite commercial in that the parking is far away, a shuttle to get you close is needed, and then a cable car or rope lift (like ski lift) to get up - there's a 45 min walk to the wall as well but then one is exhausted before starting the actual wall. I was clearly the only older person hiking from tower 6 to 20 - cable car goes to 14 so if you want to go to tower 20, it's best but wasn't in service the day we went. The slide down does allow over 60 year olds. No idea why. Views are impressive though not green
    Visited March 2023
    Traveled as a couple
    Written March 7, 2023
  • Victor C
    4 contributions
    Mubus 5 star services
    Mubus provides an very excellent service to lead us to the Great Wall from the downtown in Beijing The tour guide Fred is nice and helpful to us. Highly recommend you to join their coach services to the Great Wall. And lunch buffet provided by Mubus is delious with reasonable price.
    Visited April 2023
    Traveled as a couple
    Written April 6, 2023
  • Kyungmin Kim
    1 contribution
    Beijing Great wall Mitiamyu tour with MUBUS, KLOOK APP
    I had traveld in Beijing by myself. I went Great wall to use App klook and picked Mubus. MUBUS serve transportation and ticket. That's enough to enjoy Great wall. Their service is very kind and english also good! I really enjoyed and fully satisfied. I will recommend to my friends. Thanks to Samantha!
    Visited April 2023
    Traveled solo
    Written April 17, 2023
  • Alexia E.
    2 contributions
    Incredible
    Perfect spot to visit the wall. It was a period with very few tourist (not easily accessible by public transport. Better to have a private car). Landscape wonderful, breathtaking. And the options to go up and down the wall are extra !
    Visited April 2023
    Written April 21, 2023
  • Nigel B
    1 contribution
    The Great Wall of China - done ☑️
    Went to the wall as a must see during our trip to Beijing!! After reading reviews here we booked with Mubus for their tour. Fantastic organisation, collection and timing of the trip. Samantha our guide was brilliant, gave a great briefing and ensured we had all the ticket information needed to take full advantage of our trip to Mutianyu. To top it all we had great weather and company on the wall and really felt part of the Mubus family!! Highly recommended 😂
    Visited March 2023
    Traveled as a couple
    Written April 22, 2023
  • Michelle F
    Sao Paulo, SP9 contributions
    Great experience!!
    Amazing end to end experience! Easy to find the meeting point (near to a subway station), great guide Michael who nicely shared interesting facts about the China wall and helped us throughout the day. We also bought the lunch with them (Mubus Family company), which was great toi.
    Visited May 2023
    Traveled as a couple
    Written May 5, 2023
  • Harry H
    2 contributions
    Very good
    It was a very convenient way to experience the great wall. From the shuttle bus to the ticketing process, everything was taken care of for me. Plus the tobogganing off the great wall was an unexpected surprise. Would definitely recommend.
    Visited May 2023
    Traveled solo
    Written May 8, 2023
  • Traveler25620868407
    1 contribution
    Went with Mubus, trip went great!
    I booked with Mubus, who shuttled me from Beijing to Mutianyu, purchased tickets for me, and guided me through the whole process. They were very helpful and everything was reasonably priced. Mubus also has their own building in the village near the wall with a buffet lunch and snacks.
    Visited May 2023
    Traveled solo
    Written May 8, 2023
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Sillypiggys
Sydney, Australia1,106 contributions
A must visit in Beijing and less crowded
Jan 2020 • Family
This is such a beautiful part of the Great Wall. Personally I feel it is more breathtaking than the Badaling section and less crowded. The facilities at Mutianyu is good too with many restaurants and clean public bathroom facilities throughout the attraction (always bring toilet paper). We hired a private car from drivers just outside of our hotel. The return charge from Beijing to Mutianyu was RMB700 (RMB18 toll road charge each way is not included). Once we reached the base of Mutianyu, the driver purchased the attraction tickets for us. The tickets included the shuttle bus ride to the next level, then a cable car and entry to the wall. For a family of 4 (2x students applies for the wall entry), all those tickets costed RMB680. The cable car ride is already RMB120 pp return, so if you are super fit, there’s a well paved track to the top of the wall. Even with the cable car, there is still a 300-400m of fairly steep uphill walk and steps. We left the hotel at 9:30am, got to the wall at 11:30am. Including a quick lunch Mutianyu before visiting the wall, we left at 2pm and returned to Beijing around 4pm. We went on Saturday in early January.
Written January 4, 2020
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Daniel C
Middlesbrough, UK164 contributions
China's iconic sight
Jul 2019
To get here from Beijing you'll need to take a tour bus for several hours depending which part of the city you are travelling from since the traffic can be crazy in China and often is. Once the bus drops you off and you pay for your ticket to go through, you'll need to climb up a hill which takes about a half hour to get up, passing through trees and up wooden steps, hopefully you wont mind bugs flying into your ears. Once you reach the top of the hill you see the wall blocking your view, then you can go up some steps and you'll finally see a wall that seems to go on forever. It slides up and down the hills, like a snake almost as it twists and turns in both directions on and on; on a clear day you can see it stretch out, but be careful of when you visit because it can get unbearably hot in China, up to 40 degrees Celsius. You'll also need to make sure that you're visiting when few other people are because otherwise you'll be cramped in with hundreds of others beside you and barely able to move or enjoy the wall. You can run up and down the sloping wall, explore the small castles dotted along, see old cannons and behold northern China, aka Inner Mongolia and experience a piece of history. To get back down you don't need to walk, you can simply take a sled down a long slide for a fun 5 minutes back down to the bottom.
Written June 24, 2020
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Sarah Nossy
Dubai, United Arab Emirates705 contributions
Toboggan down The Great Wall of China!
Jan 2020 • Family
This was by far the best part of the Great Wall to visit as it was practically empty! Zero crowds but very challenging walk. We walked for an hour and a half up and down the various sized stairs (including stops for photos) before reaching the cafe where you can opt to take a chair lift down or ride the toboggan! It’s super fun but make sure to allow time for the people in front to go down so you can ride at maximum speed. This was the highlight of my trip to China and I’d highly recommend using China Discovery for this tour.
Written January 11, 2020
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Kaymtravel7
Los Angeles, CA800 contributions
Best section of the wall
Jun 2019 • Friends
We were told by several locals that this is the best section of the great wall, and we are so glad we visited it. We went on a perfect slightly sunny day in June, and it was not overly crowded with tourists at all, but actually quite peaceful. We asked the concierge of our hotel in Beijing to book us a driver for the day, which worked perfectly. He picked us up at our hotel, drove us to the great wall which was about an hour drive, and picked us up after spending about three hours, and drove us back to Beijing. We took the cable car up and down, as we were not into climbing that many steps, but there were people who did it and said it was great. The ski lift and toboggan on a different part of the wall also sounded fun and were highly recommended. Once at the top, we spent about an hour and a half hiking around the wall. We certainly could have spent longer if we had more time and energy, so plan your trip accordingly. The views were gorgeous and it was definitely an amazing bucket list adventure. It’s so fascinating how sticky rice was used in the mortar for the bricks. While this is not the closest section of the wall to Beijing, I think it’s worth the extra bit of driving as it is so scenic and definitely less crowded. Beware of the souvenir sellers at the bottom who will definitely try hard to sell you their goods, though it can be fun to bargain them down. It’s definitely advisable to use the bathrooms at the bottom of the wall, as there are noneonce you get up to a certain point. We bought our tickets at the wall and it was no problem. This is a must do if you are in the Beijing area.
Written January 19, 2020
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Shan_the_explorer
Pasig, Philippines1,079 contributions
Awe-inspiring great wall
Dec 2019 • Couples
We availed the Mutianyu whole day tour package from klook, (round trip transportation from Beijing, entrance ticket, English speaking guide, round trip cable car and lunch).

It was a wonderful experience to be at such renown landmark. Great thing it was a very sunny day that we get to enjoy the view. We took our time to stroll to the 20th Wall of Mutianyu great Wall part and hike til way down to 8th wall.

The Mutianyu great Wall was not crowded at all. I highly recommend this part of Great wall to visit.
Written January 3, 2020
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Julia May Yong
London, UK48 contributions
Highlight of our trip!
Dec 2019 • Couples
Do not go to Beijing without visiting The Great Wall! We were slightly anxious about visiting in December but whilst there was snow on the ground the sky was beautifully clear! Layered clothing defiantly the answer. We took two public busses to get there because we missed the shuttle bus which leaves daily AT 8am not FROM 8am as the information we’d seen had suggested. If you’d going to take a public bus, have the destination written down in Chinese!
We walked half an hour up to the wall, about two hours along it and then about 20 minutes back down. There’s a cable car and toboggan option down but I’m not sure it’s worth it, we got down faster walking!
If you can keep walking along the top after the crowds have petered out, it’s steep but I promise it is totally worth it! Take a snack and if it’s winter, a flask of something warm! Enjoy it! You’ll remember it forever!
Written January 6, 2020
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fairlady75
Milwaukee, WI434 contributions
It was AMAZING!!
Jun 2019
Oh my gosh, were do I began, the entire experience was amazing! My sister and I were traveling to Hong Kong in April of 2019 and wanted to visit the Great Wall while in China. I don't recommend doing what we did, but thank God that it worked out really well for us. We didn't have much time in Beijing, so once we obtained our 144 hours transit visa, we waited around the airport until 7am and by the doors of PEK airport there were people soliciting rides to the wall.

The ride to the wall was less than 1.5 hours and once we got there the taxi driver parked in the parking structure and we were able to purchase our tickets from inside. We had the option to purchase the cable car ride along with the ticket, which we did. My sister purchased the tickets and I'm thinking it's because they didn't accept credit cards, so be mindful of that and make sure, before getting there. There was an ATM there in the lobby though. My only complaint with the ticket purchase was that we paid extra for our ticket as it had like a postcard attached to it and we didn't understand the addition in fee when they sold it to us, so if you're not interested in the expensive post card, then make sure to get the cheaper ticket.
Once we got our tickets, we then walked and waited no more than 15 minutes for the free shuttle bus that takes you up to the entrance, that is full of freaking wide stairs! Anywho, once you make it up there we went on the scariest cable car up into the freaking trees to the wall! Okay it was a really nice and new cable car with an excellent and safe set up, I'm just terrified of heights thus was NOT ideal for me, but I mustered through with hands over my face and a few tears shed, but once we got there I was like a kid at Disneyworld! I was in total awe, it was amazing! Many of the stairs are very steep to go up to the watch tower portions, but it's worth conquering the fears that you may have! I'm soo thankful that we went. Oh we went in early April and I was freezing! The sun was out, but I was super cold. I had on thick athletic leggings, long sleeve tee-shirt, hooded sweater, and gloves and my sister had to give me her coat! But again it was worth it!

Upon your departure there's places to buy food, nothing too desirable, but if you're starving, it would serve it's purpose. There's also tons of shops where you can purchase items and souvenirs.
Written May 1, 2020
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Abigail S
Murray, KY11 contributions
Must See section of the Great Wall
Jan 2020 • Friends
This is my third time touring Mutianyu and I took my mom and friend here since they were visiting China. We took the ski lift up and the view was great. The mountains we covered in snow which made the experience so cool. We took the tobaggan slide down and it was so fun!
Shops around the wall are bargain/barter friendly and accept USD.
However do NOT take pictures with the men dressed in traditional chinese dress with swords. They put a sword in my hand for me to pose for a photo and then demanded ¥40 from me. Kind of took away from the experience.
Written January 15, 2020
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Mike A
Washington DC, DC373 contributions
Fun Day Trip from Beijing
Jan 2020
A visit to Mutianyu in the winter is special - especially after a snow storm. I've been to Mutianyu twice (November 2014 and January 2020). Both times were ideal as the crowds were not as crazy as what you hear it can be during the spring/summer months. While the January visit was COLD, it was still beautiful to walk around and take some great photos. The cable car ticket for 120 Yuan was worth the price for the round trip. After a few hours of exploring the Great Wall, you'll want to take the cable car quickly back to the staging area if you're visiting in January. One of these days I'll walk back down or take the slide rail. There are some dining areas that are decent prices, but the souvenir shops were over priced. I enjoyed my tour group as it gave us 4 full hours to explore the Great Wall and down time at the end. The trip was about 60-90 minutes from Beijing depending on traffic. Overall, this has always been my favorite day activity while visiting Beijing.
Written February 3, 2020
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EvelynF1gueroa
Mexico City, Mexico75 contributions
A Must
Oct 2020 • Couples
No trip to Beijing would be complete without a Great Wall tour. We came to this point because I’m pregnant and we wanted to take the cable car and not walking too much. We were lucky because wasn’t too crowded and the weather was nice however we had to wait in lines quite long time and there are some points overcrowded, it’s very difficult to walk or even move. In general I would recommend to come early and to choose an specific day to really enjoy or being able to take nice pictures!
Written October 8, 2020
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