Due to the difficulty in transporting the large quantity of materials required for construction, builders always tried to use local resources. The first pass of the Great Wall was located on the ShanhaiGuan (known as the “Number One Pass Under Heaven”), the first mountain the Great Wall climbs, Jia Shan, is also located here, as is the Jiumenkou, which is the only portion of the wall that was built as a bridge.īefore the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from earth, stones and wood. The ShanHaiGuan Great Wall is known for many different things, both with the construction of the wall, and also its history. ShanHaiGuan Great Wall is referred to as the “Museum of the Construction of the Great Wall”, because of a temple, the Meng Jiang-Nu Temple, built during the Song Dynasty. Wangjinglou is one of Jinshanling’s 67 watchtowers, rising 980 meters above sea level. It runs 11 kilometers long, ranges from 5 to 8 meters in height, and 6 meters across the bottom, narrowing up to 5 meters across the top.

Representing the Ming Great Wall, Jinshanling is considered to have the most striking sights of the Great Wall. Made out of stone and bricks from the hills, this portion of the Great Wall is 7.8 meters high, and 5 meters wide. However, Badaling is very difficult to access. When used by the Chinese to protect their land, this wall was well manned by guards so as to guard China’s capital, Beijing. This particular area of the Great Wall is where most tourists visit. The “North Pass” of Juyongguan Pass is known as the Badaling. Along most of its arc, it roughly delineates the border between North China and Inner Mongolia. The Great Wall is the world's largest man-made structure, stretching over a formidable 6,352 km (3,948 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Sea in the east, at the limit between ' China proper' and Manchuria (Northeast China), to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Several walls, also referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC, the most famous being the one built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang this wall was located much further north than the current wall built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains. The Great Wall of China ( Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城 Simplified Chinese: 万里长城, pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng literally 'The long wall of 10,000 Li (里)¹') is a Chinese fortification built from the 5th century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Hunnic, Mongol, Turkic, and other nomadic tribes coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria.

The great wall