Monday, 22 June 2015

50 Most Beautiful Places You Must Visit Before You Die

50 Most Beautiful Places You Must Visit Before You Die

The Great Wall of China:


50 Most Beautiful Places You Must Visit Before You Die

50 Most Beautiful Places You Must Visit Before You Die

The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century bc;[3] these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall.[4] Especially famous is the wall built 220–206 bc by Qin Shihuang, the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, 

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