Have you already visited the Great Wall of China? No doubt, you had enjoyed the scenery surrounds the wall! How about the others who haven’t tried to visited the place yet? Are you planning to have your vacation? The following details will give you idea regarding the big wall of China.

The Great Wall (known in Mandarine as “Wan-Li Ch’ang-Ch’eng” or 10,000 Li Long Wall) was constructed started as far back in Chinese recorded history as the so-called Spring and Autumn periods (770-476 B.C.) and the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.). These walls were built by the Rival feudal kingdoms to keep their territories out of invading nomadic tribes from north. This is only man-made structure that can be seen from the moon with the naked eye. The time when Emperor Qin Shihuang unified China, he started to link up and extends these walls for 4,160 miles across North China.

Surrounding the Great Wall are plateaus, mountains, deserts, rivers and valleys, passing through five provinces and two autonomous regions. It has the averages of about 20 feet wide and 26 feet high. The walls are so broad that even 10 persons can walk across it side by side! The material uses for the wall were made of clay, stone, willow branches, reeds and sand.