Monday, September 20, 2010
Day 3: Beijing and the Great Wall
There are several places outise to visit the Great Wall. The spot we visited on our tour was good, but had some steep steps to go up! The tours are obligated to stop at various factories. Today, we visited a jade factory, yesterday it was a fresh water pearl factory. Most of these factories are overpriced, so it if difficult to justify buying anything.
In the afternoon, we visited the 2008 Olympic Village and got to see the Birds Nest and Ice Cube. The Birds Nest is the size of a football stadium. Beijing cleared a lot of land in order to build the stadiums and surrounding buildings.
Outside of it raining off and on all day, the tour company packs a lot to sightseeing into a day.
