Olympics theme at the Beijing Botanical Gardens
With the Olympics fast approaching it seems like there are few places in Beijing untouched by Olympic fever. The Beijing Botanical Gardens has even created the Olympic rings, logo and sport pictographs in plants.
Entrance cost to the gardens is just 5RMB but the conservatory is an additional 50RMB. The Reclining Buddha Temple is also worth checking out. It weighs 54 tons and took 7,000 slaves to build it.
The Botanical Gardens are not too far from the Summer Palace. From Bagou station on subway line 10 it was a 30RMB taxi ride for me.
[…] round the 5th ring road on a Sunday [video] I was pretty hot and tired after walking around the Beijing Botanical Garden, so I took a taxi back to where I got on the subway. It was a long way, but traffic is usually […]
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- mayor boris johnson looks a little out of place #
- women's beach volleyball starting now . China vs US for the gold medal #
- rain is coming down even harder now in Beijing #
- Dark and raining in Beiing this morning, not good for the beach volleyball #
- the moon lights the torch picture http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/7567746.stm #
- @AussieOlympics this is great! I hope we can beat GB #
- US beats Germany in mens beach volleyball #
- just 18 gold medals today after yesterdays 37 #
- @AussieOlympics and great to see the girls all singing too! well done girls! #
- they should have microphones on the podiums to hear the athletes sing the national anthem #