We are going home tonight!
Before we do that, we are all packed, and we hired a car, to bring us and the luggages, to Mutianyu part of the Great Wall of China. Badaling is too commercialised, so we wanted to try the other parts of the great wall.
Whats good about this part is that, you can take the cable car up, then for the trip down, you can take the “luge”, similar to our Sentosa one, just that it is much faster and from a higher point down.
We went there around lunch time. Had lunch at the foot of the hill.
Then we took the cable car up. It was not the enclosed type like our Mt Faber to Sentosa type. But open carriage, like the Sentosa luge type. But we are going up a much higher hill/mountain! So it was SCARY! When I was younger, I loved these thrills, don’t know why now that I’m older, with kids, I’m terrified! Not so much for myself, but for the kids, and for the “what might happen” thoughts…. I was shivering inside for the entire ride! I took 1 chair with Toria. And Daddy took 1 chair with Donald, behind us. I looked back and saw that Donald didn’t even hold on to anything! What if he slipped forward and fell? Aiyoh… the paranoid mum! I tried to turn around and take some pictures, but was so afraid 1 wrong move might shake the chair, or drop the camera, or endanger little Toria! Hiaz… why can’t they just do the enclosed cable car, for such a high distance?????
The Mutianyu section is not so commercialised. No vendors lined along the wall to sell you something. It was quiet and serene. Some parts, we were the only family there. It was a nice change from the Badaling I’ve been to years ago.
After the tour, we took the luge down, wow! It was an adrenaline rush. It was fast and winding, not on an open road like Sentosa, but in a winding metal “drain” type, swooshing all the way down, turning sharp corners and bends! Donald absolutely loved it, didn’t even bother to slow down when we came to a corner! I had to scream for him to slow down! LOL!
After that, we made some cheap and good chinese name engraved stamps for all 3 kids at the foot of the hill. Then proceeded to the Beijing Airport for our trip home.
Our lesson for this trip.
If you are going to REALLY cold places, like Harbin. Don’t be a cheapo and buy cheap winter wear. Go for the solid down feather type. Pay more!
How we realised?
I asked my Dad to buy a jacket for hubby from Hunchun. I thought since it is from there, any jacket will definitely serve its purpose. But my dad is a stingy man, even though I’m paying for it, he “heart pain” to spend so much on a winter jacket, so he bought a cheap one.
I didn’t know how “bad” the jacket was, but Matt was struggling for the Hunchun and Harbin Trip. And I thought he was being a pussy. Even our contact in Harbin commented that we were not dressed warm enough for the weather there.  But we thought, only a few days, what a waste to buy expensive jackets only now.
But when we went to Beijing, Xiushui, and we bought some simple cotton jackets with fur on the inside, he exclaimed how WARM those were compared to his jacket! Then we realised, how he has suffered from not being warm enough in a -25deg c environment!
We had since contributed that lousy jacket to our warehouse’s coldroom. And we had learned our lesson. When we saw Canada goose down feather jacket, which were meant for north pole type of weather, we bought 1 each for us, even for my dad, so that he can be kept warm on his purchasing trip in Hunchun. Now, with the Canada goose Snow Mantra jacket, Matt says he is ready to tackle Harbin head-on again! 
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