After a rather long accidental lie in, we headed off to the Birds Nest and Water Cube which were venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The Olympic village was rather large and quite a few people spent their weekend walking through admiring the architecture!
In the evening we went for headed for the CBD (central business district) to see the tallest building in Beijing and the TV tower. The TV tower is like 2 buildings joined together with what looks like a totally unsupported overhang!
Afterwards we hit the night markets where they sell a variety of different bugs.... to eat. There were live scorpions, snakes, centipides, baby birds, starfish and even poor old sea horses.
We decided to have rice soup and to sample the local rice wine instead. With an alcohol content of 46% we only braved a little sip!
At 1am we tackled the packed out Beijing Train Station to catch an overnight sleeper train to Pingyao.
The Olympic village was rather large and quite a few people spent their weekend walking through admiring the architecture!
In the evening we went for headed for the CBD (central business district) to see the tallest building in Beijing and the TV tower. The TV tower is like 2 buildings joined together with what looks like a totally unsupported overhang!
Afterwards we hit the night markets where they sell a variety of different bugs.... to eat. There were live scorpions, snakes, centipides, baby birds, starfish and even poor old sea horses.
We decided to have rice soup and to sample the local rice wine instead. With an alcohol content of 46% we only braved a little sip!
At 1am we tackled the packed out Beijing Train Station to catch an overnight sleeper train to Pingyao.
