Holiday Inn Hohhot

... houses.<br><br>We stayed in a good hotel in the centre for 2 nights. H is a very large city with 2.5 million people compared with only 3 million people in the whole of outer Mongolia. <br>The contrast is extreme, there is much wealth alongside much poverty. <br>Our first day we had a guide to take us to the favourite tourist places, Zhao Jun Tomb, Dazhao Temple and the Five Pagoda Temple. The last day we were off at 23.00 to Beijing. We ...

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This city Beijing is not merely amazing, awesome but incredible. The new and the old. The beautiful and mundane. NOthing but positive experiences.here. Want to finish this up and send out update but watch this entry for an update of some of my experiences here. It has reinvigorated my yen for travel.

... child after their first born (remember the one-child rule in china?), and just joked and laughed as we tried to communicate in broken english. the food wasn't bad either. except maybe for the horse milk tea. overall, the trip actually turned out pretty nice. next morning we parted from the group to head back for beijing. and wouldn't you know it? no more train tickets available. thank the Lord there were a few seats left on the bus. and now we're ...

... to do with horses!. Joseph and Pete rode a Go-Cart around the track field before the show started. The Nadamu event scheduled for the time we were there included Mongolian wrestling and horse race/acrabatic show. Lunch was in a huge yurt-like building that is called "Thousand Guest Banquet Hall". It looked like it ...

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... dinging room was pushed open and streamed in a group of young men and ladies dressed in beautiful Mongolian costumes. In no time, all standing room in the room was taken by singers, dancers, and instrument players. A pretty young girl announced that it's the Mongolian custom to present to their distinguished guests a lamb toast ceremony. Each of us received ...

... s taken in front of that than the top pagoda! After a few hours rest we all headed out for a huge fun filled dinner and then returned to our palace sized room for more beer and many hours worth of chat about this and that.. I'm really happy we met Little Turtle and Mantao on the Grasslands and Desert adventure. We all get along so well ...

... more time traveling more than anything. It was definitely an adventure, though, and it was fun to travel without any supervision and trying to do things ourselves. To my surprise, everyone agreed that I'm a lot meaner/tougher when I'm speaking Chinese. John concluded that it's because I know people expect me to be fluent. When they find out I'm not fluent they usually aren't that nice, so I get angry ahead of time and act a lot tougher. After this was pointed out, I realized that I am ...

... paper with 'dumplings' scribbled in Chinese we, shortly after, received a plate of 'Mammas' amazing dumplings (private joke only Henk will understand). Sufficiently fed and watered, and with the festivities winding down, we made our way to our hotel room, turning down offers from pimps as we went. Even being unable to communicate didn't prevent us understanding what they were offering. Seemingly the going rate was 50 Yuan, about &euro;5. And that's ...