Tour Description
Pick up from your hotel lobby at 9:00am. First we transfer to The Digital Beijing by car.The exhibition is on display on an unprecedentedly huge monolithic screen measuring 228 meters long and 3 meters tall. Thanks to digital representation, it restores thousands of buildings painted on A Round Glancing of Old Beijing, including moat, city walls, temples, prince mansions, hutungs, shops, restaurants and residential dwellings, in addition to scenes and activities of people of all walks of life in their daily lives and trades, such as opera, temple fair, shopping, wedding, funeral, entertainment and relaxation, and play.In the present time of change and transformation, Old Beijing has been nowhere to find. However, the digital show of " The Old Beijing Gets Moving" and "Exhibition of Folk Customs of Old Beijing", together with other exhibits and performances, present to the audience a vivid Old Beijing.
Digital Old Beijing:
"Look around at the old Beijing"allows people to experience today's highly modernized Beijing at the same time, also to glance a hundred-year-ago Old Beijing perfectly-containing the city appearance of the old Beijing and the folk customs which is in contrast so much. Then the shaking for half a century and the changes have made you love Beijing and good life today more and more. Associated with the painting , there is also a project who has the other scrolls of Wang Daguan, including Beijing bridge, Dong'an Market, North Sea and so on, so that the very expansion and sustainability of the project.
Lunch at local characteristic restaurant.
In the afternoon,visit to the Olympic Green - Bird's Nest and Water Cube. The Beijing National Stadium(sightseeing about1hour), also known as the bird's nest will be the main track and field stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics and will be host to the Opening and Closing ceremonies. In 2002 Government officials engaged architects worldwide in a design competition. Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research Group to win the competition.
The National Aquatics Centre, known as "The Water Cube"(sightseeing about1hour), will be one of the most dramatic and exciting venues to feature sporting events for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The building's structural design is based on the natural formation of soap bubbles To arrive at the building's structural design, which is based on the natural formation of soap bubbles to give a random, organic appearance, we used research undertaken by Weaire and Phelan (professors of physics) into how soap bubbles might be arranged in an infinite array.
Drive back to your Beijing hotel.
The Water Cube:
The National Aquatics Center will be the venue for swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water-polo final during the Olympic Games. The total seating capacity is 17,000, including 6,000 permanent and 11,000 temporary for Games which will be removed post-Games, then the National Aquatics Center will become the venue for various activities such as aquatic sports, swimming, fitness and recreation.





