Visit the Olympic Park in London by boat

The guided boat trips are part of the month-long London Festival of Architecture, and will take visitors to the Olympic Park area via East London’s historic waterways, which surround the Olympic Park. Visitors will be able to view the construction work underway to create the Olympic Park from the Greenway which overlooks the Olympic Stadium.

The trip will begin aboard the traditional narrowboat, Jenny Wren, at Limehouse Basin, and then cruise up the Limehouse Cut, past Three Mills Island home to Britain’s oldest standing mill, House Mill, before continuing up the River Lee Navigation to picturesque Old Ford Lock.

A great way to see how East London is developing

Richard Rutter, regeneration manager, British Waterways said: "These trips are a great way to see for yourself how East London is developing. British Waterways is pleased to see that the waterways which have breathed life into the area since pre-Doomsday times are once again being viewed as an important focus, both as a transport route for barges to help supply construction materials to the Olympic Park, and as a green corridor offering a wildlife habitat to everything from coots and moorhens to kingfishers, dragonflies and damselflies."

Regeneration of the Bow Back Rivers

During the trip British Waterways will explain about the waterways pivotal role in East London’s past, present and future, discuss how the area is changing with the regeneration of the Bow Back Rivers and the London 2012 site. Speakers from the Olympic Delivery Authority will take visitors through plans for the Olympic Park for both Games and legacy, before a stop off at Old Ford Lock to view the Olympic Park site from the Greenway by Pudding Mill Lane.

The two hour trips must be booked in advance through the London Festival of Architecture at www.lfa2008.org or by calling 0870 264 3333. All trips start at Limehouse Basin, off Narrow Street, E14 and cost £7 per person.