We got up super early this morning and caught the 0750 train from the Beijing Railway Station, about an hour away from Wudaokou. My eyes were still bloodshot from the lack of sleep, but I'm crazy this way. It was around 1100 when we reached Beidaihe and the afternoon sun was shining down on us. After batting away the ruthless Chinese "entrepreneurs" who are all too ubiquitous around train stations and airports offering to be your personal driver for an extravagant amount of money, we boarded the local bus which took us to Shanhaiguan city centre. From here, we took a cab to the actual part of the Great Wall we wanted to see, the Old Dragon's Head (Laolongtou), where the Wall actually begins. As you could see from the pictures, this section of the wall got its name from the design of the watchtower, looking like a head of a dragon drinking water from the ocean.
It was refreshing to be by the seaside again as Beijing is just a dust ball of a city in a desert.
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