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Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park 顺义奥林匹克水上公园Shùnyì Àolínpǐkè Shuǐshàng Gōngyuán
4A scenic area · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- City
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Built beside the Chaobai River for the rowing, canoeing and marathon swimming events of the 2008 Olympics, this venue is now a water-sports and leisure park. Visitors can try rowing and kayaking on the still-water course, go rafting on the slalom channel in summer, or use the waterside walking routes, camping lawn and children's play areas, and it suits active families.
How to get to Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
In Mapo, Shunyi District, about 40 km north-east of Tiananmen and roughly an hour by road.
Nearby
- 798 Art Zone 798艺术区 30 km
Contemporary art galleries and cafés in the sawtooth-roofed halls of a 1950s factory - Great Wall at Mutianyu 慕田峪长城 30 km
Restored Ming watchtowers riding a wooded ridge, with a toboggan run back down - Bird's Nest and Olympic Green 奥林匹克公园 30 km
The Bird's Nest and Water Cube, venues of the 2008 and 2022 Olympics, lit up after dark - Lama Temple 雍和宫 40 km
Incense-filled courtyards and an 18-metre sandalwood Buddha in a working monastery - Temple of Confucius and Imperial Academy 孔庙和国子监 40 km
Courtyards of stone steles naming imperial exam graduates, beside the old Imperial Academy
Also within 20 km: Beijing International Flower Port 北京国际鲜花港 (under 10 km), Jiaozhuanghu Tunnel Warfare Site 焦庄户地道战遗址 (20 km).
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