Hengxin Hotel Ordos
North of Weiqi Road Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
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The Gobi Desert
The Gobi Desert is one of the strangest places I've ever been. You get there by bus and then catch a cable car to cross a small valley. On the other side, a huge pile of sand socks are waiting – everyone wear them because you seriously do need them. The sand dunes go on for kilometres as far as the horizon. To get further into the desert we ride an old military half-truck which has been converted to look something like a Viking war ship. It ...
Calling on the Cave Dwellers
... in the front seat that was reserved for the bus driver's assistant (the guy who collects the fares). Michelle loves to watch the road ahead from the perch of the front of the bus and doesn't mind battling for it. The driver's assistant gave in and and ended up sitting on the flip down seat by the door that is intended for the driver's assistant.
We started from the edge of the city and were quickly on a very ...
Ab in die Wüste
... wenn man von einem Chinesen in meinem Alter erfährt, dass diese Wüste in seiner Jugend noch Steppenlandschaft war und die Industrie für die Desertifikation gesorgt hat...
Jedenfalls haben wir fast das gesamte Touriprogramm mitgenommen: Dünenklettern, Kamelreiten, Zugfahrt, Sandrodeln und Buggyfahren. War auf jeden Fall witzig, aber insgesamt 24 Stunden Fahrt habens doch irgendwie nicht so prickelnd sein lassen.
Die Fahrt zurück hat jedenfalls auch wieder 12 ...
Final day in Inner Mongolia
... on the go. Our next destination would require us to drive nearly 3 hours to a desert location from our present position. We snatched up potato chips, crackers, gummy candies and everything that was unhealthy we purchased. Our tour bus would then drive west on a highway which turned out to be the one that made the headlines for having a 60 miles of congestion. It was indeed the highway that resulted the famous traffic jam from Beijing to Mongolia.
Luckily for us, ...
Trip to Inner Mongolia Part 2 (End)
... attendants told the people that the toilet was closed so some people just when in the bushes), but this was totally false as we were actually stopped to wait for 4 other people from the same tour that had stayed at the main camp because they did not follow us. These people told us that they had to stand on the other bus until they got to ours, I guess that the other tour bus was full.
So finally when we departed to the desert after picking up the other people, I ...


