Start from your Beijing's hotel lobby in downtown Beijing around 7:00am in the morning. hotel need to be wihtin 2nd ring road of Beijing, start your 2.5 hour hike on the eastern section of the Jinshanling great wall at 10:00am with lots of photo chances of the surrounding foliage after 2 hours driving, architecture, and towers along the way. Originally, there was once a section of wall built in the Northern Qi Dynasty. It has complete defensive system including barrier walls, battlement walls, watchtowers, gun emplacements, horse blocking walls and branch cities. After being ruined by wars, the big project of restoration was built in the Ming Dynasty after Emperor Zhudi moved his capital from Nanjing to Beijing. It later experienced a 18-year reconstruction from 1580 by Qi Jiguang, a Chinese military general during the late time of Ming Dynasty. Then go back hotel.