Blogger Bombards Readers With China Photos (Part 1: Beijing)

Beijing

We left Minneapolis at 3 p.m. Sept 16 and arrived in Beijing at 7 p.m. Sept 17, after gaining 13 hours. The first day we wandered around the city and visited Zhongshan Park, The Forbidden City, and Tiananmen Square.

On Wednesday, we hiked The Great Wall, and were gimpy for about three days after. Six or seven miles of stairs. Awesome. It was incredibly beautiful.

No pictures of the incredible zip line, unfortunately. Below is my happy face after zipping down the mountain. We were riding a boat back to our bus.

The next day we decided to cab around the city to see different sites. Hoping to take an architectural tour of the new Olympics buildings, we started out at Olympic Park, which unfortunately was very much under construction and we were unable to get close. I did see the two that I was most excited about, though, the main stadium and the aquatic center. (If you are unfamiliar with the extreme coolness of the aquatic center, click here.)





More to come!