Inner Mongolia Jinjiang International Hotel 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 ...

... 1494;&#1493;&#1504;&#1495; &#1500;&#1496;&#1493;&#1489;&#1514; &#1492;&#1492;&#1508;&#1514;&#1506;&#14 93;&#1514; &#1513;&#1500; &#1505;&#1497;&#1503; &#1513;&#1500;&#1488; &#1502;&#1508;&#1505;&#1497;&#1511;&#14 92; &#1500;&#1495;&#1491;&#1513;. &#1492;&#1497;&#1493;&#1501; &#1504;&#1497;&#1505;&#1514;&#1497; &#1508;&#1512;&#1497; &#1495;&#1491;&#1513; &#1513;&#1504;&#1511;&#1512;&#1488; &#1508;&#1492; "&#1497;&#1488;&#1504;&#1490;-&#1502;&# 1488;&#1497 ...

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.

... and vibrant with an intense green under and crystal blue sky. hmmm... not even close. "yes" the grasslands were enormous... miles and miles of endless rolling hills with far off mountains. "yes" the sky was an unimaginable crystal clear blue. but "no" the grass was not very green and the grass was not very high. in fact, the grass was patchy, barely growing out of the dirt and sprinkled with bits of trash left from the hundreds of tour groups that ...

... allowed to get inside one yurt serving as a 'show-room'. The young Mongolian girl who guided us to the yurt was very nice. We asked her many questions about how the life of grassland people has changed, how children receive education, etc. We were very glad that we had this rare opportunity to visit the grassland and ...

... Turtle loved it so much he wanted to come with us again. As far as museums go, for me this was my favourite. I loved the displays and the paintings behind them that gave them a more real effect. Each room was dedicated ...

... taken to me but as usual upon such a short meeting no one really knew what to do with me. I knew enough Chinese to answer many question but not enough to sit and have a conversation so thankfully Luo Wei was near and all were happy! Around nine found us one the road passing through some of the most amazing scenery. As we passed beneath ...

... s land area. It has a population of about 24 million as of 2004. The capital is Hohhot. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, bordering to the north with both the Republic of Mongolia and Russia, is the widest province in China (by its latitude). It is the third largest Chinese province (over 1.1 million square kilometers or 424,736 square miles) but not very populated. The province has about 24 million inhabitants ...

... tried to learn at least some Chinese before I left Seattle. One class that I signed up for was cancelled for want of enrollment. Another dwindled from 22 students to nine by the fourth session, after which I stopped going because the instructor was having us recite in unison, so we were getting no individual feedback on our pronunciation of a language rife with sounds that have no direct correlation in English. The last class I signed up for seemed ideal at first ...

... had been trying to avoid the local tour guide who was insisting we went on a tour of the nearby grasslands that were 'almost as good as passing through Mongolia itself', and so far had been successful. The phone rang at one stage and Vinny had a rather strange conversation with a woman who spoke no English whatsoever. An hour or so later there was a knock on the door. Vinny had batted off the last visit from the tour guide so it was my turn. There was a relatively ...