Bird Nest and Water Cube tour

On March 3, we went to the Olympic Green, an Olympic Park in Beijing, constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics.  The distinguish image of the huge Bird Nest was quite good for a good photo.  Kids were happy with the activities on the park.

The Bird Nest is the centerpiece. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, and football finals of the Games.  Many people were waiting for buying tickets to enter the Bird Nest.

The Bird Nest is a bowl shape with a red stand. It looks like a nest structure. It is made of gray mining steel covered with a transparent membrane.

Kids were more interested in the Water Cube, they asked if they could swim for at least half hour in the pool where Micheal Phelps made his record of 8 gold medals. We encouraged all kids to register for the games in 2020.

More people were waiting at the entrance of the Water Cube for tickets to go in!

The Water Cube hosted the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events in August, 2008, it is a semi-transparent “cube”, with “bubbles” spread out all over its surface, is a shape very similar to the structure of  “H2O”.

We were told that openning hours to visit Water Cube and Bird Nest is from 09h00 to 17h30, but these two places were not open all the time!  At Water Cube, limited people were allowed to visit every two hours!  Even after standing for hours to get a ticket….Why so many people…We had to cancel our plan to go in. 

The nearby Summer Palace was our choice in the afternoon.