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A man is not a real man does not board the great wall. These words of Mao presided over the entrance to the Chinese national monument in its passage through Badaling, the most touristy section of the wall in Beijing.

Whether or no, I think that the Chinese have been very easy for that to become a real man, given the length of the wall, which until now was estimated measuring some 6,300 km

I say so far, because a recent study that has used the technological advances of our era, has found that the wall is considerably longer than that thought. Well, much longer, you will think of you, have discovered a couple of miles. Well, you gentlemen, infrared and GPS have uncovered 2,551 miles of wall that remained hidden to national pride.

with what the current length of the monument put in 8,851 miles.

But, as you have anonymity these more than 2,500 km? Well, apparently, discovered sections belonging to the Ming Dynasty (which ruled China from 1368 to 1644) had been hidden with the passage of time and sandstorms.

But we know that the so-called Great Wall, or as you know the Chinese "The long wall of 10,000 Li (China as equivalent half a kilometer) and was proclaimed a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1987, is de facto a single piece, but a series of walls and barricades of earth began to be built in the 5th century BC and who joined for the first time under the rule of Qin Shi Huang around the year 220 AD, according to the BBC points in his article devoted to finding .

the wall funny thing is that although a wall just as the landscape changes. I've seen her in several tourist sections of Beijing, well restauraditas for any tourist to break an ankle, in Qinhuangdao, north of the capital, where the wall meets the sea, and on the outskirts of Beijing, after a 7-hour trek through mountains and stunning settings, where all that remains of the once magnificent architectural icon in a couple of crumbling towers and a pile of stones that were once recall the link between the towers.

The Great Wall at Badaling passing through

One of the more touristy sections on the outskirts of Beijing

sepenteando recently restored between mountains

The Great Wall meets the sea at Beidaihe

The Great Wall on a wild stretch in the mountains

One of the three towers in the wild stretch

The view from the window of a tower in three sections
From left to right: Badaling, Beidaihe and wild section

But where I see I always returns to mind the greatness of the work, not for its beauty, because in the background is a wall, but the thought that when these people on this side of the world was dying to build such a barrier, in Europe we were still in diapers.

But back to the discovery itself, giving some reason to Mao, with more than 8,000 miles available, indeed the man who does not rise to the wall Not that it is not a real man, is it's a downright lazy.