Simatai Great Wall is a national AAAA level tourist attraction, a national key cultural relic protection unit, a patriotic education base, and a world cultural heritage.
The Simatai Great Wall, known for its “surprise, danger and wonder”, is located in Gubeikou Town in the northeast of Miyun County, Beijing, with a total length of 19 kilometers and a total of 35 enemy towers. It is the only section of the ancient Great Wall that retains the original appearance of the Ming Dynasty in China. It was created by Qi Jiguang when he supervised the construction of the wall. This section of the wall has been identified as the “original Great Wall” by UNESCO.
The Simatai Great Wall is divided into two sections with the Simatai Reservoir as the boundary, and the cross-valley cable bridge is like a long rainbow across the east and west. The western section of the mountain is relatively gentle, 20 enemy towers have been well preserved; The eastern section of the Great Wall is winding and imposing, and at the top of the mountain is densely covered with 15 enemy towers. “Fairy Tower” is beautifully built, white jade arch carved and Tilian flower relief, “Fairy Tower” is not more than 100 meters long, on both sides of the cliff cliff, but only one brick wide “bridge”, can cross this bridge is really a city hero. “Wangjing Tower” is the highest point in Beijing, 986 meters above sea level, boarded Wangjing Tower, visitors can see the “fog snow” in the east, the Great Wall in the west, the customs outside the fortress in the north, and the lights of the capital in the south.
Simatai also provides tourists with invisible cableway, canyon cable bridge Tours, Yuanyang Lake rafting, swimming, fishing, accommodation, small meetings, shanzhai game and other services. The Simatai Great Wall International Gliding Festival will be held in June, the Cultural Festival will be held in August, and the city climbing competition will be held in September.
Simatai Great Wall integrates various characteristics of the Great Wall. Take the wall. There are single walls, double walls, trapezoidal stone walls; In terms of the pattern of the enemy tower, there are two, three, flat, round, corner, two eyes, three eyes, four eyes, six eyes, twenty-four eyes; And the top style, many are unique to the Simatai Great Wall……
The most wonderful part of the eastern section of the Great Wall of Simatai is also “risk”, the Great Wall is like a giant dragon on the cliff above the cliff, across the east and west, within a kilometer, covered with 14 enemy towers. Especially on the side of the steep mountain, a ladder rises, the slope of the ladder is 85 degrees, under the cliff, wide only feet, almost upright, and no handrails, about 100 meters long, wide only one brick, both sides are 900 meters of the abyss, where only four limbs can crawl through, it is frightening!
The Simatai Great Wall has two most distinctive buildings. One is the “fairy floor”, the legend is from an antelope into, because the lotus fairy lived here and named, it is slender, long years in the white clouds, just like the girl who does not want to go out, white jade arch carved and Tilian flower relief, for the Great Wall is the only. The second building is called “Wangjing Tower”, 986 meters above sea level, is the highest point of cultural relics in Beijing, standing in this building can catch the sky, distant mountains near the water, can have a panoramic view. Accommodation information
The county has more than 20 unique style tourist hotels can stay. If you live in a folk village, it is cheap, clean and interesting. Traffic information
In Xuanwumen or Dongforty, you can take bus No. 12 directly;
Dongzhimen by 918 road to Miyun County, and then transfer to large, minibus direct.
The round trip bus fare is about 60 yuan. catering
There are many restaurants on the Great Wall. Don’t forget to eat “δΎ‰ stewed fish”. This kind of fish cooking method can be exquisite, must use the fish of the river, the farmer here has a saying: “The original river water boiled river fish, beautiful not to mention.” Seasoning only put green Onions, garlic, salt, after the pot fish smell, fish soup as white as milk, with yellow corn flour cake and millet mung bean porridge, so that the capital people “eat and forget to return.” In the chestnut mat, chestnut red pork strips, chestnut white pork strips, don’t forget to taste, as well as the whole fish mat, wild vegetables should be eaten once, eat a fresh. Price Description Ticket: 30 yuan; Invisible cableway: 20-30 yuan; Cable bridge: 5 yuan address in Beikou Town, Bugu, northeast of Miyun County;
Time use reference
3 hours
traffic
Public Transport:
1, Beijing Tourism Distribution Center departure point: Tian ‘anmen departure center (daily), Xuanwumen departure station (weekends and national holidays). Departure time: 6:00-9:00(Tian ‘anmen Departure Center), 6:30-8:00(Xuanwumen Departure Station)
2. Take Route 980 from Dongzhimen to Miyun County, 6:00-19:00, 15 yuan, 60 kilometers, 2 hours. Transfer to a private van across the road from the station, 60 km, 1 hour or so. 100 yuan/car, 30-40 yuan/person, you can carpool, you can bargain.
3, to Miyun, take the car to Gubei exit to the fork, and then chartered to Simatai. Play after the chartered bus back to the fork road, take Chengde to Beijing car back to Beijing.
4, every year from April to October, there are also tour buses can go to the Simatai Great Wall, the departure point is in the square outside Xuanwumen Catholic Church.
By car: Beijing-Cheng Expressway to the 24th (Simatai) exit, turn right after the toll station, along the road to Wuling Mountain to the direction of Bagezhuang, Bagezhuang has a concrete road, along this road until the end, straight into the Great Wall. This path through the mountain “forest” word, a straight to Wangjing Tower.
Admission ticket
Simatai Great Wall ticket 40 yuan/person (reservation required for single tour), Simatai Great Wall guide ticket 100 yuan/person, Great Wall ropeway (one-way) 80 yuan/person, Great Wall ropeway (round-trip) 120 yuan/person. Special preferential policies please refer to the on-site announcement of the tour area.
Opening hours
Open area: Floor 1-10, East section of Simatai Reservoir
Please book at least one day in advance to take the free shuttle bus to the foot of the Great Wall in batches according to the specified time. Enter the Great Wall scenic area to visit, make an appointment to ensure that the tour places. Tour batch: 3 batches per day (10:00, 12:00, 14:00)
Winter time (November – March next year) : 8:00-17:30. The Great Wall clearance time is 18:00; Summer Time (April-October) : 8:00-18:00, the Great Wall clearance time is 20:00