Last day in Beijing so decided to visit the Olympic Park which took me about 35 minutes to cycle. Had trouble trying to work out how to get in as everybody else was on a tour group and because I got there earlier I didn't seee where they got the tickets from and I walked right around without seeing the ticket office. Turned out to be at the opposite end of where you enter in the car park so I had to walk half way around again. The Water Cube is an interesting piece of architecture and actually is made up of two layers forming the bubbles. Cost 30RMB to get in. Then to the Bird's Nest which was 50 RMB to enter. These are actually pretty expensive by Chinese standards considering that its just to go in and have a look but I guess they have to make the money back somehow. This is also an amazing building and probably on par with the Sydney Opera House as far as complexity is concerned. The Olympic mascots were doing a cute dance inside as well. I was going to try and fit in another sight before leaving but ran out of money so just rode back and hung around the Hostel and the shops until 1.45pm. I thought I would give myself plenty of tme to get to the airport and as usual, everything went smoothly so had a lot of time on my hands.
Plane was on time so landed in Bangkok at 10pm and catching a taxi was easy as they now regulate it so that there is no longer a group of drivers hanging around trying to hustle you and the taxi drivers line-up to collect a ticket which has your destination written on it in thai. This is done by a lady sitting at a desk when you get to the taxi stand. When I got dropped off I had some trouble locating the Hostel as it wasn't signposted that well but a couple of locals helped me. Hostel isn't as good as the Beijing one , very cramped room but it's only for two nights so thats fine. Bangkok is very hot so I've gone from one extreme to the other.
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