Where are all the people?” a friend asks upon seeing my photos from a recent trip to China, where I hiked on the Great Wall (and I have a T-shirt to prove it, so there). Truth is, I had wondered that ...

Except for the few weeks of sandstorms, springtime is generally a good time to hike the Great Wall: not too hot or cold, with the mountainside beginning to blossom. In the summer, Old Sun often ...

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China ... You can start hiking the Badaling portion at 6:40 a.m., and you must be down by ...