Beijing 2008

This was a one-month vacation and a on-in-a-lifetime event for us, - the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. We got tickets for several events: women's preliminary basketball, judo women's 78kg and men's 100kg final, men's team epee bronze and gold medal matches, rowing finals, gymnastics artistic finals, women's football bronze match Germany vs Japan and an evening of athletics finals in the national station, aka the bird's nest. The enthusiasm of the Chinese spectators was amazing and an event of its own. The architecture of the Olympic park is monumental, modern and during night time particularly attractive due to the many light effects on the buildings. Furthermore, we visited with friends the Tánzhè Sì temple. I saw Jun's University, we visited the new Capital Museum and went to the new Beijing Opera for a spectacular Turandot performance.

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Olympic Green at Daytime (cont.)
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Top-level of the Linglong Tower
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Sculpture
National Stadium
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National Stadium
National Stadium
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Olympic flame
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Olympic flame
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National Stadium
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National Stadium
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National Stadium
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Inside the National Stadium
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Inside the National Stadium
National Aquatics Center and National Indoor Stadium
Athletics Finals
Inside the National Stadium
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Spectator ranks inside the National Stadium
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Decathlon javelin throw
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Women's 4x 100m relay final
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Women's 4x 100m relay final
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Women's 4x 100m relay final
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Women's 4x 100m relay final
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Women's long jump final
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Maurren Higa Maggi won the women's long jump final
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Men's pole vault final
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Women's 5000m final
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Finish line
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Olympic flame
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Olympic flame
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Olympic flame
Olympic Green at Night
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Inside the National Stadium
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Inside the National Stadium
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National Aquatics Center
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National Aquatics Center
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National Aquatics Center and Pangu Plaza
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National Aquatics Center
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National Convention Center
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National Indoor Stadium
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Linglong Tower
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National Stadium
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National Stadium
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National Stadium
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National Aquatics Center and Pangu Plaza office tower
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National Aquatics Center
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National Aquatics Center and Pangu Plaza
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Pangu Plaza office tower
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Pangu Plaza
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Pangu Plaza office tower and National Aquatics Center
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Linglong Tower
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National Stadium and Linglong Tower
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Sculpture
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Entrance to the subway station
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Linglong Tower
Beihang University
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Main building of the Beihang University
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Female students' dormitory
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Dragonfly
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Former teacher
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Former teacher and class mate
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Former university class mates
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Former university class mates
Parents Home in Fengtai
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North side
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South side
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View towards north-east
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View towards north-west
View towards north
Daytime view towards south
Nighttime view towards south
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Family dinner
 
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