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Published: September 23rd 2007
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Did it and bought the T ShirtAwoke at 5am to be ready for our 6am pick up - Checked weather forecast, thunder storms by midday!!!!
Let's hope it holds till we're done with our Great Wall trek....
As daylight broke we could see it was going to be a murky day -
Just our luck!!! Hope we manage to get a few good photos....
There were 7 of us, all from different hostels, in a mini bus.
2 Londoners, two Australians and one from France.
A good crowd to travel with.
About 15 minutes into our journey, we spotted the Olympic Stadium, we all got our cameras out!!!
On our arrival, we had the option to climb up to the wall or take the ski lift...
Skim took one look and said "Ski lift please" and justified, that she didn't see any sense in killing herself trying to climb up to the wall....
Turned out to be a good choice, and the others all followed suit.
This is the one thing we really set our hearts on doing when planning our RTW trip.
And do you know what, it was the most amazing part of our adventure
Beijing Olympic Stadium
"The Birds Nest" Caught sight of it whilst heading for the Great Wall, its 6.30am and it misty. Lets hope the mist clears up..... to date....
We will let the pictures speak for them selves.
4 hours later.......
We were ready for the dreaded decent on the down hill slalom.
Exhillarating - Why did we fear it!!!
Only one of our team chickened out and took the ski lift back down.....
When we reached the bottom, we we're surprised to see a market -
Wasn't there at 7.30am!!! Haggled a lot and bought the "I climbed the Great Wall" T shirt - Well! All my shirts, we're in need a wash.....
And as for the thunders storms, luckily they held off till 6pm.
But it still got us!!! We got soaked to the skin, after heading to the station to book our ticket to Xi'an later in the day.
Lesson of the day -
Kagols are not much good in that sort of down pour!
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Marg
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Great Wall!!!!!!!!!!
The views look great, Crickey you must have been Knackered after that, Don't think i'd have Strength or Energy PHEW!!!!!!!!! Talking about Flies that about the same as in Aus!!!!! get a either a Corked Hat or one with a Net over the face Looks silly but better than Swatting flies all the Time, you'll definately need one in the outback. Great to hear about your Travels.