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The Badaling section of the wall is where most tourists come to see the wall.  There is a commercial center built in the valley where you can ride up to the wall on a cable car.  

When you look at the wall itself, you can see that the left side is built higher than the right - that's the Mongolian side.   And there were holes in the left side so that you could look out and shoot arrows at any Mongols trying to invade China. 

 

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