The Bird's Nest (Beijing National Stadium)

We visited Beijing National Stadium last Sunday. We didn't go inside because the tickets cost 50 kuai which is quite expensive for us. The building is really impressive up close. There are also a lot of sculptures we had fun taking photos of (and making fun of) .





The Water Cube or the Beijing National Aquatics Centre is at the front of the Stadium. I've read somewhere that though it's called the "Cube" it's not really a cube but it's rectangular.


DIRECTIONS:
There is a subway station in front of the Stadium (Subway Line 8).

National Art Museum of China

National Art Museum of China. Reg and I went last Sunday because one of the exhibits - The Artistic Handicrafts Grand Exhibition will be ending tomorrow. I wanted to go to this museum ever since I realized this was a museum but the girls (Liza and Hazel) can't be bothered to come unless there's food in the picture (like in a menu (",) ).

There were two exhibitions that day. The China Artistic Grand Exhibition and the Rosy Clouds in the Sky Exhibition.

The painting below is my favorite. I still can't read Chinese so I don't know who painted it but isn't it amazing? It's my current wallpaper, ' think there's a rule against that?

I always pass by this place on my way to work. Always wondered what I'll see inside. Now I know...

DIRECTIONS:
BUS: The No. 103 tram stops directly in front of the museum. The name of the bus stop is Meishuguan (美术馆).

CAB: Tell the driver to take you to Meishuguan (美术馆).

Beijing World Park (Around the World in 4 Hours)

I went with three friends to Beijing World Park (Chinese: 北京世界公园, Shijie Gongyuan) last Saturday. We took a cab from Changchunjie Subway Station (exit A2) after we got tired of waiting for the #7 bus which goes directly to the park. Cab ride took 30 minutes and 43 kuai.

at the park entrance

different angle

From Wikipedia: Beijing World park is located in southwestern Fengtai District, and is about 17 kilometers from the City center and 40 kilometers from the Capital International Airport. The park opened in 1993 and is estimated to receive 1.5 million visitors annually. The park displays about 100 tourist attractions in a scaled-down version from nearly 50 countries around the world, including the Tower Bridge in London, the Eiffel tower in Paris, pyramids in Egypt, as well as the Twin Towers in New York, which were destroyed on September 11th, 2001.

smelly elephant

Lyndale and Hazel had a lot of fun posing with the naked stone people at the Italian garden. We saw MichaelAngelo's David, Armless Venus (photo not included) and several other naked statues.

at the Italian Garden

copping a feel

si 300 daw???

Hazel's David

Then we went to Japan where checked out a wooden tower and the Katsura Palace. Liza and Hazel practiced their karate skills at a wooden bridge.

wooden pagoda

not sure what this one is...

practicing their karate skills

Next stop is the Taj Mahal in Agra, India...

Taj Mahal

At the gate of Babylon... I got tired of waiting for Hazel to take the shot.

blue gate (ngalay na...)

Somewhere in South East Asia... nameless temple, Angkor Wat and a palace in Thailand.

great poses!

Angkor Wat

Thai Palace

Day's boyfriend

Then we're of to Australia to see the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Sydney Opera House

Sydney Harbour Bridge

quick stop

A photo shoot in Africa. My new models for a jeans commercial. You'll never think that Liza doesn't know what to do with herself before the shots were taken...

show your left knee

hand in your pockets

show your right arm

petting the rhino so they can ride it

After Africa, we went to Egypt to see the Great Sphinx, the pyramid in Giza, the Abu Simbl place and the temple in Karnak.

Great Sphinx

Giza Pyramid

boobs

Abu Simbl

Karnak Temple

jumpin'

Other Sights...

London Tower Bridge

Aztec (fhm poses)

hamsters in a bubble

Manhattan

Victoria Falls

Stonehenge, England

Eiffel Tower up close

ran out of ideas for poses

Vatican City

Wonder Girls in Rome

Leaning Tower of Liza

Acropolis, Greece

Hazel of Troy

France

church

moonlighting at the Red Square

I also got to satisfy my Godzilla tendencies...

George Washington Monument

some church

We went to lunch at a Chinese restaurant near the gate (in the International Street) afterwards. The food is passable though we had to guess what to order because they don't have an English menu. The menus are only in Chinese and Russian...