Outrage on social media over restoration of Great Wall of China, turning it into a smooth path - Polidicks

Looks like a crappy copy of Snake's Way from DBZ

at least it's a wall and not a path broken and chopped into 100 sections.

Depending on how the elevation changes are (mostly a trip downwards), I'd really love to take a bike down that. I'll sign a waiver and everything.

[QUOTE=MyBumBum;51098772]The restoration guys really fucked up big time[/QUOTE] Ah, they really fucked it up badly then. Honestly could they even remove the concrete and, unrestore it? Somehow? A tiny bit? :v:

I hope they at least used concrete mix made from the ground-up bones of peasant laborers.

They should just made a see through walking bridge a meter above it with support at the sides and they could have left it all intact.

[QUOTE=karlosfandango;51098176]I am planning a round trip to Beijing, bullet train to Xian and then flying to Hong Kong and home for next year. Hope they don't cover too much of it before then. Don't they have a Health and safety executive there as this looks like a H&S nightmare especially with no handrails.[/QUOTE] If you the chance, climb 华山 when you go to Xian, it's not too far by train. Also worth going to 回民街(Muslim Street, amazing food), 城墙(Ride bikes on the city wall)，兵马俑。In that order of preference, unless you are really in to your history, then you might like 兵马俑 (Terracotta Warriors), but it's a bit of a tourist trap. [editline]25th September 2016[/editline] Oh but if you care about health and safety, why are you even going to China. 华山 is very dangerous to climb, you'll get diarrhoea without fail, probably get lost, scammed, run over. Natural selection plays a bigger part in China, take care of yourself.

wow that's so ugly i wonder if this really is the final product of their restoration

Why even restore that part?

Not really a big surprise. This is a country that attempted to wipe out it's own history.

A Trump-worthy cause if there ever was one. "Make the Wall Great Again."

[QUOTE=Mingebox;51098401]Here, let me just restore the Statue of Liberty. [img]http://i.imgur.com/2Z6KEnf.png[/img][/QUOTE] Uh, sir, you should have used copper block to restore that. That was the Statue of Liberty originally before chemically changing with oxidation.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;51098571]if thats the case then i dont really see an issue and like another poster pointed out, the great wall wasn't supposed to be about art or architecture, it was a defence strategy with most being erected really fast to serve its purpose[/QUOTE] You do Realize the Great Wall was built over a period of nearly 2000 years right? Calling it somthing built "really fast to serve its purpose" does injust to the million people who died constructing it. Also bear in mind that it wasn't built all in one long ass line. It was a series of forts and wall like defences that were gradually overtime connected, thus giving us the final product we see today.

[QUOTE=reevezy67;51103054]If you the chance, climb 华山 when you go to Xian, it's not too far by train. Also worth going to 回民街(Muslim Street, amazing food), 城墙(Ride bikes on the city wall)，兵马俑。In that order of preference, unless you are really in to your history, then you might like 兵马俑 (Terracotta Warriors), but it's a bit of a tourist trap. [editline]25th September 2016[/editline] Oh but if you care about health and safety, why are you even going to China. 华山 is very dangerous to climb, you'll get diarrhoea without fail, probably get lost, scammed, run over. Natural selection plays a bigger part in China, take care of yourself.[/QUOTE] I don't particularly care for H&S, it's just that considering the footfall you would of expected them to consider it to a degree. A non tamped concrete path on an incline isn't ideal. Is the diarrhoea a product of the climb or the food?

[QUOTE=space1;51099890]By your logic we should be destroying all historical landmarks that have outlived their purpose. I'm glad you aren't in any sort of position of power, you'd destroy entire cultures.[/QUOTE] well the guy could be working for ISIS so...