The Mystery on the Great Wall of China

96 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mystery</strong> on the Great Wall of China
“As a matter of fact, it is,” said Cong. “It
is called <strong>The</strong> Escalator and it’s the longest
covered outdoor one in the world!”
Finally, they exited <strong>The</strong> Escalator and
soon were at the train station, barely in time to
climb aboard before the train began to chug out
of the station.
Papa settled back with his newspaper and
tea, giving the kids some yuan for lunch when
they were ready. For hours and hours they
watched the incredible and endless landscape of
China pass by their windows.
After they got out of the city, they saw
forests of waving bamboo, ancient walled
villages, wide yellow rivers, deep gorges,
bearded mountain goats, hillside terraces where
rice was growing, water buffalo, forests of oddlyshaped
stone called karst, and people doing
exercise called tai ji quan in the open air.
Christina thought it was all so magically
different from the things she was familiar with
back home, which is why, she guessed, travel was
so mysterious and so much fun to her. She
wished they could go to Tibet, which she knew
was called the “Roof of the World” and see