The great wall is a sandstone dike about 2m wide and 15m high stretching over 15km. The most intact part is 8km from Tha Kek. I signed myself up for a 3 day trek but I had a day before it started and decided to visit this not-in-the-guidebook attraction. I rounded up Rohan and Mike, an American I met, to rent bicycles and visit the wall. It was late afternoon when we finally all got bikes and left town. It was mercifully a little cooler and overcast. The great wall was located on the road north to Vientiane. All along the road before we reached the best section we could see remnants of the wall. We reached the best bit and found a way to the top of the way. No one knows if the wall is natural or was man made. Mike is a geologist and his theory is that it is a natural sandstone dike pushed up from the depths of the earth but he was blown away to learn that is was 15km long. It looks somewhat man made with the slabs of sandstone being vertically cut in roughly equal sections except that there were hardly any vertical cuts. It would be impossible for these huge and long slabs to be man made and I think it's just a natural wonder like I've seen nowhere else. We took pics from the top and then went around the other side to get photos from the base of the wall.
We rode back to town and I washed clothes and packed my things to get ready for my 3 day trek.
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