Being Filipinos, the Olympics were obviously not as big of a deal to us as many other people. However, being a sports fanatic and travel freak, I have, in my time visited a good number of Olympic stadia and other Olympic related sites. My last post was about the Panathinaikos Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece which was the site of the first organized Olympic games back when it was still just played among the city states of Ancient Greece. For this post, I’d like to jump right into the modern Olympic era where host countries battle it out for a chance to host the games and in the end, spend millions upon millions of dollars in new infrastructure. I’d like to share some pictures that I took from the Olympic park in Beijing, China which I visited last year. Beijing hosted the 2008 summer games and the amount of infrastructure that was built in preparation for the games was just phenomenal. The Water Cube Olympic park facilities Bird’s Nest The entire complex has now been...