Hongye Hotel Ordos
No. 6 Hangjin North Road, Dongsheng District Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
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The Gobi Desert
... in the world.
After lunch, we walked down a path to where the camels were kept. They took us on a short ride through the dunes. A camel’s hump is the weirdest thing to feel; all furry and rubbery. As I’d been riding horses the day before, I wasn’t too sad to get off the camel, but it was pretty fun. The camel s took us to a place where giant sandcastle art stood trying to defy erosion. They were ...
Calling on the Cave Dwellers
... for 50 RMB per person including meals. Boy that would great. As we wandered around the courtyard and spotted Kodak moments at every corner, she disappeared into a 1.5’ x 1.5’ foot hole and emerged with fresh vegetables. Who needs a fridge? In no time we were served delicious fresh tomatoes sprinkled with little sugar some egg and fresh pepper, a stir-fried (mild) green bean and meat dish, another stir fried ...
Final day in Inner Mongolia
... guide had separated us again to groups who had paid in advance and those who have not paid for their activities. He was hocking us a package that would have included a cable car lift, camel ride, a train ride, and desert shoes for 280 RMB. Our group elected to only pay for the cable car lift to the attractions and pay for the activities ourselves. We were only given less than 2 hours to enjoy ourselves for the day, as we needed to drive back to Hohhot and board a train later ...
Trip to Inner Mongolia Part 2 (End)
... Liz, Brian and myself ended up going for a ride on the ATV for 60 yuan (bargained as best as possible, I think Liz did the bargaining), which was a really crazy and awesome ride as our driver drove really fast, as per our request. I remember that it was hard to take pictures on the ride because it was rather bumpy and we were trying to hold on to the roll bars as to not get thrown off because there were not seat belts. After the ATV ride Brian and myself decided not to ride ...
PART II (MONGOLIAN HORSES AND THE GREAT WALL)
... shi tade fuqin ma?" (Is that thing the baby's father?) The man explained some more things to me.
But, if he was surprised when I asked that, he was even more surprised when, about halfway through the ride, he turned around to see that I'd taken off all my clothes. He yanked the reins so hard I almost fell off into a pile of horse poop.
No, no, no! I'm only kidding. I didn't ride the horse naked. I was worried ...


