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Beijing's Olympic Green

(This will be the last post for Beijing's Olympic stadiums series.)

On my last day there (which was in January 2010), I found out one needs to pay 50 yuan (RM25) in order to go inside the National Stadium. That's pretty on the high side considering you just only get the view without doing anything. Fortunately, during winter time, the inner stadium will be converted into ice skating area. The fees package for ice skating started as low as 80 yuan (if I remember it correctly). That excluded skating equipments. And that's another steep price to pay for.



From bird's eye view, there's a canal within the Olympic Green which is reminiscent of a dragon. It looks more like a seahorse instead. Probably another feng shui related design.

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