Sand, gravel, mud, mountains, dongas, rivers and lakes and more. The run took us across some of the most revered and diverse landscapes imaginable. One always has an idea in your mind, and to this you plan and progress yourself. The problem that I came across

Little villages linked by a dusty thread of road weaving in and out of the desert . The wall was rarely seen in this area as expansion and farming have taken its toll on the very sensitive mud structure. All that is left of the tail

On entering the small farming towns we are always met with curious smiles and hidden questions? Who are they? Where do they come from? What are they doing? Some kids run from us, others just stand and stare. In the dusty paths the little ones play, grubby

Rest day, a thing of the past, we slowly worked our way out of the river basin and up towards the desert plateau. The scenery once again entrapped our imagination and the wall seemed to feed out of the earth ahead of us like a giant

It is always so incredible, no matter how well you think that you have researched something or covered all of your bases, you always miss something. We had spent two weeks along the wall prior to our trip and we were convinced the knowledge of our

Years and then months of intense planning, and finally I have not only taken the first steps of our journey, but a week has already passed, over 200km of intense desert terrain. It would be difficult to ever encapsulate what has been going through my mind,

The word “Chang Cheng” Became one of my most used in China, as well as one of the first that I learned to say. This was the Chinese word for the wall, which if translated literary means endless structure of some 10 000 Li in length

The flat was filled with the drone of busy excited voices, the door buzzer had not stopped for the past hour. No one was really talking about the reason for our gathering, but the body language was there. Every time I would make eye contact with

When do you call it a day? What does it take to finally break your spirit and you decide to just sit back and let things go by? Fall back into your rut and be satisfied with what is going on around you, that your effort,

What lies ahead of me, my journey through the middle kingdom, the 3rd biggest country, a civilisation shroud in mystic and secrecy? For hundreds of years being surrounded by the hoards of barbarians all trying to get into their land. A civilisation going back for thousands