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  • Good morning, guys!

  • Today we are off on our Great Wall adventure.

  • Super excited about this,

  • because it's a part of the Great Wall that

  • tourists don't really go to

  • and we will be staying there overnight with just a local family in their home.

  • Some confusion as to how to get to this place, because it's really far outside of the city,

  • and we're taking...

  • I don't know, buses, metros, trains.

  • So, we're trying to figure out the last details here.

  • The problem is, it's not on the map.

  • Like, it's not a really well known thing that people do this,

  • sleeping over at the Great Wall.

  • It's just like their house, so...

  • Step one!

  • Took the metro, and now we are going to get a train.

  • From there, we're going to do... something else, and then we'll get there.

  • We could have had them pick us up in the city, but we just like to do things the hard way.

  • So, we got to the train station, and it's CRAZY

  • they want to charge us 1800

  • for a train ticket that we already know costs 6 kuai.

  • They're just outright telling us 1800, and then they went down to 600.

  • It costs 6 kuai!

  • Six.

  • We KNOW how much it is.

  • We know!

  • Funny.

  • No!

  • How much is he saying?

  • 600.

  • NO, NO, NO!!

  • So, we just went like a few feet away from where they were telling us this,

  • and we got the ticket,

  • and it literally says on the sign: 6 kuai.

  • And... they also tell us the train's not running today.

  • And if it is running, it's not running until 9 p.m.

  • - 9 p.m.? Yeah...

  • Guys, it's running in an hour.

  • But then, it's so hilarious, because it sounds awful,

  • but these guys are actually, like so funny.

  • Here's one here - they're actually so friendly.

  • We say "what?? no!"

  • and they're, like laughing too,

  • and, it's just honestly like a big party, so.

  • He wants to sell us tickets for 600 kuai!

  • - Okay!

  • - 1800... (laughing)

  • - You're so...! (laughing)

  • And he wants to sell it for 600 kuai.

  • And he's laughing too!

  • So...

  • Now they - they all want to be -

  • And now, now we're all taking pictures.

  • Okay.

  • Family photo.

  • Okay?

  • - Okay, okay?

  • - Okay.

  • Bye!

  • Poppy!

  • We just ran to get to the first class seats!

  • Because apparently that's how things are done.

  • - That was awesome.

  • I loved that!

  • This whole experience is just such an adventure, like now people are running.

  • In other places, you pay more to sit in first class, right?

  • But here, the fare is all the same,

  • So whoever runs to the train and is like, most aggressive first,

  • and runs here,

  • gets all the first class seats.

  • So Poppy and I just kind of... went with it and ran!

  • And we managed to get this awesome table.

  • - It's sweet.

  • Jordan's freaking out because we can see the Great Wall.

  • - I just saw it out the window, I didn't know it was coming!

  • Look at it!

  • We're driving right by it!

  • Oh my gosh!

  • K, we have arrived in Yanqing, and this is our stop.

  • Reached our destination, this is where we are staying.

  • Pretty simple room.

  • Pretty much in the middle of nowhere, definitely not a touristy area.

  • We're the only ones here.

  • They don't speak English, so we're not really sure what's going on now.

  • Hello!

  • He's seriously a lion!

  • Started our trek to the Great Wall.

  • The weather right now is absolutely beautiful!

  • The skies are blue, mountains surrounding us.

  • There is this old woman that is our guide.

  • So excited to get up there!

  • Can see it up ahead, all around us.

  • As we're going along, the woman that is leading us

  • is just grabbing things off of bushes and trees, and just getting stuff to eat!

  • Little snacks.

  • She gave us this one - I don't know what it was, maybe a berry or a fruit?

  • Tasted like a sour pear, maybe.

  • I think we're about halfway.

  • These views!

  • We have gotten up to the first part of the wall that we're going to be going on today.

  • There's nobody here, we saw nobody coming up here.

  • And the wall is a bit overgrown.

  • The mountain views from here are just incredible.

  • And I am actually standing ON the wall, right now.

  • Which is so crazy!

  • Now in one of the towers on the wall, and this is unbelievable.

  • There's Poppy!

  • This is so amazing.

  • We just get to go wherever we want.

  • There's no, really, signs or gates or anything.

  • Because again, this isn't a tourist part of the wall, people don't come here.

  • So you can just go wherever.

  • Oh my gosh!

  • Whoa!

  • - Look at this!

  • Oh my gosh I cannot believe how stunning this is!

  • These views are absolutely incredible.

  • We're literally hiking ON the wall, not just TO the wall.

  • Which is awesome, I mean - we're hiking ON the wall right now, that's...

  • That's just insane.

  • Loving it up here.

  • As you guys can see now, the wall here in this portion is completely overgrown.

  • And it's pretty cool, it just feels really wild.

  • Obviously I can already tell from other parts of the wall that people don't come here ever.

  • This is like Indiana Jones in an ancient ruined city.

  • Ancient ruined wall.

  • Can't get over these views.

  • Just everywhere is absolutely spectacular.

  • And now we're about to do the hardest part of the hike yet,

  • we're hiking all the way down there and then all the way up there.

  • This is amazing!

  • Just, you know, sitting here literally on the Great Wall of China.

  • NO railings, no guard rails anywhere here, no safety signs.

  • No people.

  • Pretty sure that you would not be able to do this in the touristy areas of the Great Wall.

  • On some points of the wall, you really get the scale of this structure.

  • It's just incredible.

  • Everyone knows that the wall is extremely long, but to see it for yourself

  • stretching into the distance as far as you can see,

  • disappearing into the horizon in these insane mountains,

  • with this view is just...

  • Definitely a bucketlist item that you guys just HAVE to see for yourself.

  • And this tour that Poppy and I did today was not expensive at all.

  • I'm going to put all the details farther on in the video, because this is just the best.

  • Everybody should do this.

  • Now sitting down to have dinner that this couple has prepared for us.

  • Alright, we've actually moved inside because it was too cold out.

  • She keeps bringing more food!

  • Xie xie.

  • All of this food that she's bringing us right now is made fresh

  • with ingredients from their property, their farm here.

  • Which is pretty cool.

  • Had our dinner.

  • And it's really cold here, so Poppy and I are just bundled up in the blankets.

  • Yeah, let's do that.

  • Who's going to get up and have their cold - the cold floor on their feet?

  • *literally crickets chirping*

  • What?!

  • Does that mean I have to do it?!

  • - Have you never heard of nose goes?

  • - No!

  • What is that??

  • - That absolutely 100% means you have to do it!

  • - Is this a made up thing, Poppy...?

  • - This is not a made up thing!

  • I hope this goes on YouTube, because everyone's going to look at you like a fool!

  • You have so much to learn.

  • I grew up never seeing TV, never seeing movies... never seeing a computer!

  • So I don't know some of these things!

  • Ahh!

  • Well, we have woken up here on the Great Wall.

  • Our room faces the wall.

  • It was a cold night, it is very cold here.

  • Yeah.

  • Really, really cold.

  • So we were just all, in the blankets all night.

  • I think we are going to have breakfast, hopefully some coffee.

  • How did you sleep, Poppy?

  • Um...

  • Cold-ly?

  • These people have the cutest, most beautiful dog - ever.

  • He's like a walking little lion.

  • He's asleep right now, but I really wanted to show him to you.

  • He's actually snoring!

  • He's so cute!

  • (snoring sounds)

  • Finished our Great Wall adventure,

  • and we're heading back to Beijing now.

  • An amazing experience!

  • Everybody always says that when they go to the wall,

  • there's no pictures that they get without any people in them,

  • it's super crowded, all these tourists.

  • When we were on the wall, how many people did we see?

  • - Nobody.

  • - Zero.

  • - Just the woman that was taking us up the wall.

  • We were hiking for I think 4 - 5 hours, and just along the wall, just like,

  • kept going to more cool buildings, and more cool...

  • Oh my gosh.

  • Every new place that we went, it's like - every, every time I looked at Poppy,

  • she was looking... this epic location!

  • - Yeah!

  • - I was like, "Poppy, I have to take a picture of you!"

  • - It was just like a constant "oh my gosh!"

  • - We just love it here, and we think that anybody going to the Great Wall

  • should do this, and not go to the touristy part.

  • So, we're not sponsored by the company at all, they don't even know we're...

  • - They don't even speak English, so they have no idea who we are...

  • - Yeah.

  • - Why we've been walking around with cameras this whole time...

  • - Yeah, they think we're a little...

  • We just honestly love it, so this place is called Great Wall Fresh.

  • And that name is because, again, everything is fresh that they feed you,

  • everything is just from their garden and their little farm here.

  • And it's surprisingly cheap.

  • - Definitely very, very cool.

  • And also here, you're staying with a local family, I know it's a little difficult that

  • they don't speak English and you can't really communicate that well,

  • but it's all just part of the adventure.

  • This is a genuine experience, these people actually live here,

  • wake up seeing the wall every morning, just like we did.

  • Definitely highly, highly recommend this place to you guys.

  • And hopefully bring this couple some extra business.

  • Alright.

  • We're going to go back to Beijing.

  • Hope that some of you guys can come here.

  • Bye!

  • - Bye!

Good morning, guys!

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