Tour Code: BJ26
- Beijing Olympic Tour
The first stop for today is the Olympic Sports Center Stadium (OSS), where is the venues for race competition and the equestrian events during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. For the transportation, you can take bus No. 113, 386, 407, 656, 737, N740 1, 753, 804, 827, 939, 944, 983 and get off at Asian Games Village, walk along the Beichen East Road towards south for about 496 meters to reach there. Now it is also used for football games and other kinds of sports meetings, the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium (OSG) and the Yingdong Natatorium of National Olympic Sports Center (YTN) all locate here and you can pay a visit there.
Bird's Nest, BeijingOlympic Green locates 1.3 kilometers away from the YTN in the north. Come across Beisihuan Zhong Road and walk along the Beichen East Road towards north, you can reach there. The National Aquatica Center (the Water Cube) and the National Stadium (the Bird Nest) and the National Stadium (NIS) all locate here. The admission fee for the Water Cube is CNY30.00, CNY50.00 for the Bird Nest and CNY20.00 for NIS. The tourist coupon is CNY100.00 net for Water Cube, the Bird Nest, NIS and Olympic Village International Area, you can buy this coupon if you decide to visit all these four venues in one day. Green, Hi-tech and Humane Olympic Games are three ideas of Beijing Olympic, the Water Cube and the Bird Nest are built under this slogan, the two building incarnate high-tech, conservation, energy-saving and the practicability for application everywhere. Stroll along the path, you may find you are getting into a modern, peace and quite land, what a fair treat! At the meantime, do you become infatuated with the names of the Bird Nest and NIS? The Bird nest is also abbreviated as NST, it was the venue for opening and closing ceremonies, athletic and man football competitions in Beijing Olympic. The inspiration of NIS comes from a Chinese folding fan, the competitive gymnastics, trampoline and hand ball games were all held here in 2008.
Continue your exploration to the north, on the left side of the road, is the Fencing Hall of National Convention Center (FCH). The road forward is the Forest Park, you may find the Hockey Stadium (OGH), the Archery Field (OGA) and the Tennis Center (OGT) in sequence in this sound and beautiful ecological environment.
If you are interested in the ethnic culture, the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park will be a good choice. It also belongs to the Olympic Green, is a hypaethral ethnic art and science museum with mixing the ethnic architecture, cultural exhibition, music and dance show and sports competition. After visiting the OSS, you can find it on the opposite.
In 2008, when you were at the grand occasion of the Olympic Games with the theme slogan of "One World, One Dream", you would find yourselves experiencing the oriental ancient civilization of Beijing. If you were not there, then visit the grand buildings with experiencing the culture and spirit of Olympic without any doubt.
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