From Beijing to Jiankou, you can go to Dongzhimen (东直门) station on line 2 and take exit B. You will exit in front of the Dongzhimen Bus Terminus and you will need to go to the North (北）Platform to take bus 916快 to Huairou 怀柔北大街stop and take a car to the beginning of the Jiankou trail. When you get off the bus, drivers will ask you where you want to go. Just tell them Jiankou and they will know where to take you. For a compact car, it is 15 kuai per person if there are 4 passengers. Basically, it costs 60 kuai for the car and you split it with how many passengers are inside. There are also minivans but I'm not sure how much the price is for that. Don't pay more than 15 kuai though for the minivan, unless you are the only passenger.
Bus 916快 takes about 1-1.5 hours to get to 怀柔北大街 Huairou Bei Da Jie and then the compact car takes about 30-40 min.
The hike up to the Great Wall from the drop off point takes 2-2.5 hours and is all uphill. It is quite strenuous so bring plenty of water and rest along the way. Follow the yellow ribbons and trash along the trail. There are multiple times when the trail seems to go into two separate trails, but they all lead to the same destination. One trail tends to go around some of the rock formations and another trail goes right on top of the rock formations.
There is camping allowed at Jiankou and we set up on top of one of the towers getting a nice view of the towns below and the stars above.
We had left Donzhimen station at around 4pm and arrived at the wall around 6pm. We had to really keep up our pace to get on top of the wall before sunset. Luckily at around 8pm there was still light out so we were able to set up camp in time.
The next day we woke up around 6am to the nice cool breeze and had breakfast and packed everything up.
We started our 4-5 hour journey to Mutianyu to take the luge/toboggan down the wall. I say 4-5 hours because we stopped along the way to rest and also did a lot of stops to take pictures of the beautiful scenery.
From Zhengbeilou tower (the tower closest to where you climbed the ladder to get onto Jiankou) it is 2 hours (4km) to the start of Mutianyu section and then another 2 hours to the luge. It's 60 kuai to take the luge down the Great Wall and 50 kuai to take their two person ski lift contraption.
This is when you'll know you've reached Mutianyu:
The Spanish and English speaking toboggan conductor:
To get back to Dongzhimen after getting off Mutianyu section, go to Parking lot #1, should be the first parking lot on the right after Subway. You can take bus #867 at 2pm back to Dongzhimen Bus Terminus. It also makes stops along the way like Sunhe (line 15) and Sanyuanqiao (line 10). The bus takes the Beijing metro card, but if you don't have the metro card, it is 16 kuai/yuan and there is an attendant on board that can provide change.
Alternatively, to get to the Great Wall, you can also take bus 867 for 16 kuai/yuan outside of the Dongzhimen subway station and it will take you directly do the Mutianyu Great Wall and you can get to Jiankou by walking north along the wall. The hike would take about 2 hours. To get to Zhengbeilou tower would take 4-5 hours and there's a lot of uphill.
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