Olympic Forest Park

This guide to Olympic Forest Park in Beijing traces how planners for the 2008 Games extended Beijing's eight-hundred-year-old dragon vein, the imaginary north-south axis emperors once built their capital along, straight through the Bird's Nest and Water Cube and on into this park. It covers the debate over moving that much earth and the artificial peak of Yangshan mountain that rose from it. Look north from the water for the hill built from the stadiums' own excavated soil.