The city looks like it is just recovering from a major catastrophe. There are collapsed building everywhere that stretch for whole city blocks, and others are closed with obvious signs of damage, with many people working furiously to get the building ready to reopened. You see many road closures and detours. The streets look like the opening scene to the Terminator with large machines rumbling through the streets at all hours of the day and the night, and you see platoons of men moving forward with determination, carrying the tools of their trade, with smiles on their faces, in anticipation of their daily marathon efforts to get Beijing ready for her Olympics only 500 days away.

The Beijing Olympics 2008 are getting close and you can feel the that the pageantry is all ready starting to build for what is sure to be China coming out party here at the beginning of the 21st century, China’s century according to the sages of our times.

Beijing is getting a make over, and in addition it is getting some fantastic new buildings for all to marvel at, like the water cube, built for the swimming and diving competitions, and the birds nest, the major stadium of the games. Most of the competition will take place at the north end of the city between the 4 and 5th rings, with the first ring being the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and Mao’s mausoleum.

In addition to the new stadiums, they are moving fast with a major reworking of the central core in anticipation of the crowds that will be here for the Olympics. After the Olympics the buzz will sure to be go to China and Beijing which is a fascinating city with many different things to see besides the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.

Fred Tittle has lived and worked in holiday vacation resorts his entire life, from Lake Geneva’s Playboy Club, as a rock jock for KSPN FM in Aspen Colorado, he became a PADI Pro Scuba Diver in Hawaii, diving on Maui, Kauai, Kona on the big island, and Waikiki on Oahu. He now owns EcoSea Dive in Sihanoukville Cambodia where he teaches SSI and PADI scuba diving courses and runs liveaboards in the gulf of Thailand and Asia adventure tours, http://www.ecosea.com

Fred’s new project http://www.CheapCharliesHotels.com where he reviews cheap hotels, budget guesthouses, discount accommodations and cheap international flights, but is really an excuse to go scuba diving on vacation more, Fred is in Beijing China with Xiamen China the next stop.

 

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