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SHANHAIGUAN
, "The Pass Between the Mountains and the Sea", a town at the northern tip of the Bohai Gulf, was originally built as a fortress in the Ming dynasty, to defend the eastern end of the
Great Wall
. The wall crosses the Yanshan Mountains to the north, forms the east wall of the town and meets the sea a few kilometres to the south. It's a sleepy, dusty little place of low buildings and quiet streets, still arranged along its original plan of straight boulevards following the compass points, intersected with a web of alleys. Dominating the town is a fortified gatehouse in the east wall, which for centuries wa...
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