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"By walking along it, I can learn not only about the Great Wall itself, but about the real China. Farmers fetch water from wells, plow fields with cattle and cook on wood fires, things that are never seen in Beijing or Shanghai. This is the very root of China. I hope more people can see this."

Frenchwoman Sylvia Berjas-Morales, 69, calls her walking journey along China's Great Wall "a great walk ... in heaven and a little hell". She has traveled over 3,000 km along the Great Wall from west to east, walking alone since 2008.