On the first day of our stay, we visited the Tiananmen Square, a large city square that was named after Tiananmen Gate, a gate that separates the square from Forbidden City. ... We managed to get through the cold, and we walked point five miles of the wall from our starting point to one of the watchtowers. ... I remember seeing five thousand miles of the Great Wall slithered on the mountains like a snake crawling on a field of grass and blue hills spanned the horizon before me; the sky was a little cloudy, but a glimmer of the sunlight shone onto the Great Wall, giving it a little sparkling...

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