the great wall and fly it! Thats right fly a kite off the great wall! New, crazy and just plan silly. Right up my ally if i do say so myself. The kite i brought was a Chinese Dragon Kite. Very traditional. However I question how well it works. Just from looking at it i dont rightly understand how it is supposed to fly. BUt i have seen pictures of them flying. So i guess it works.
Well we went to the tourist section of the great wall. Chosen for cheap price, easy access, and overall simplicity. Also Chenwei choose it so i was more than happy just just follow directions. he he. BUt i think i need to start a little farther back.
So Monday night i went out with some people i meet in the hostel. We went out for drinks and food. So a few hours later of beer, beer and a little vodka. It was about 2 am. 2 am when i finally went to bed. The entire eening was spent talking about everything. From Education, girls, politics, racism, history, and life. It was wonderful fun!
But well it was late. 2 in the morning when i finally went to sleep. now the obvious downside is that to go to the great wall I have to get up very early. I was up at about 630 in the morning. Yea NO sleep. No sleep then going to climb UP the great wall. GREAT IDEA! but hey this is I, the person who thinks before acting.
I suprised even myself when i found it rather easy to get up in the morning. A short subway ride and Chenwei and I are on our way to the great wall.
so we go up to the wall. Pull out the kite and away we go. sort of. As you can see the kite never got much air. Sadly there is no wind at the great wall. As such the kite well, It was more a snake than flying dragon. At least it looked pretty.
But that is not what it is about! I am not disapointed in the least. I got to try to fly a kite off the great wall. I had a crowd of people laughing staring and well as you can imagine wonderful fun! We even got some local guys to attempt to fly it. They thought they could do one better! It didnt work BUT it wasnt anything less than awsome!
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it is very creative, interesting and impressive to fly a kite at the great wall though we failed to fly it high. it is the process that matters very much just as you said, at least we felt very happy as well as all the other tourists who saw us doing that at the moment. we will manage it next time ,i believe.--chenwei
Like the pic of the diving guy! (Is that ice???)
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