DAY 3: Beijing Olympic Park, Bird's Nest, Forbidden City and Tian'anmen Square

Beijing Tour July 18-22,2013
Day 3 (July 20, 2013) - Beijing Olympic Park, Bird's Nest, Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square

Day 3 is a lax day for us. We were really tired from the trip from Manila to Beijing, then waking up really early the following day to join the tour and then a DIY walking trip to Wufajing District before calling it a day.

Woke up around 9am, enjoying our instant coffee and just-bought salted pretzels from last night. We dilly-dally till 11am just watching CNN.

We took the blue line subway, Chongwenmen Station,  which is near the hotel. We alighted at Olympic Green Station which is linked to Xin'ao Shopping Center. 

Nice escalators -

We had lunch at KFC where the cashier can not understand "chocolate sundae". Usually, I would order food pointing to pictures on the menu but I really wanted a choc sundae :) only strawberry sundae has picture :(

The whole area is nice.

Across is the Bird's Nest.

Beijing Olympic Park -

 Bird's Nest from the gates -

It was a lesson learnt the hard way - do not ask for directions, you'll get lost! Alol knew the water vendor made us follow a wrong way based on the map we're holding. But since we cannot take a glimpse of where could be the nearest subway station, we followed the instructions given to us. After hours of tireless walking, we didn't find the subway but just ended up at Gate 4 of the Beijing Olympic Village.

We took the cab (in our despair to find the subway) to Forbidden City. Good thing Capital Hotel has a checklist of tourist spots with Chinese names so we can just show to the driver. As expected, the driver is "no English".

Tiananmen Square next. Walk back to the hotel. Dead tired :x