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Tiananmen Square & Forbidden CitySummer Palace
Temple of Heaven
Ming Tombs
Hutong (traditional part of Beijing)
Beijing Zoo
Lama Temple
Xiushui Market/Silk Market
The Sacred Way
Bird's Nest & Water Cube (Olympic Village)
National Centre of Performing Arts
Olympic Green
Great Wall at Juyongguan (the most magnificent)
Great Wall at Badaling (the most famous)
Great wall at Mutianyu (the prettiest)
Great wall at Simatai (good for hiking)
Great wall at Jinshanling (good for hiking)
Huanghuacheng Great wall (not officially open, steep)
Jiankou Great wall (steepest)
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Olympic Green
Beijing Olympic Green is located in the north of the central axis of the city. It occupies an area of 1,215 hectares, with 760 hectares set aside for woods and grass, 405 hectares for the International Exhibition and Sports Center and 50 hectares for the Chinese Nationalities Museum. The Olympic Green a big oxygen bar of the city. Beijing Olympic Green is the central area for holding Olympic sports. It contains 44% of the total Olympic sports venues and most of the service facilities. The area contains 14 sports venues, the Olympic Village, the Reporters' Village, as well as a news center, an international broadcasting and TV center.
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The Olympic Village owns safe, quiet and beautiful environment as well as comfortable and conveniently location. Its construction area is about 470,000 square meters. Be divided into two parts-living areas and international areas, the accommodation of the Olympic Village reaches 16,000 athletes, coaches and accompanying staff. The Head of the village is the famous Chinese female athlete Deng Yaping. Â
Covering a floor space of 400,000 square meters, the Reporters' Village is no more than 6 minutes' walking distance from the Olympic venues. Beijing Olympic Green is a leisure park with scenery similar to classical Chinese landscape painting. The area of the park is larger than the total of the Summer Palace and the Yuanmingyuan Park. Even there is traffic ban during the Olympic Games, there are crowded people taking photos of the Bird's Nest and Water Cube everyday.