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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.

just got back from inner mongolia. a bit of an experience. in all honesty, we probably would have been fine had we missed this short trip. we took off from beijing with great anticipation of seeing the famed grasslands that Genghis Khan and grandson Kublai Khan once roamed and ransacked. we had dreams of riding bareback across open fields on the stout short legged mongolian horses. i was particularly looking forward to sitting inside a yurt sipping ...

... cigarette and the puffs kept rushing toward my face. We were incredulous and looked at each other but made no protest. Pete and Joseph were so bothered by the loud speaker and walked away from the table, out of the dinning hall to see the gift shop. A group of Mongolian dressed young men and women came to our table ...

... So, museums hey! What better day to go to a museum than on a rainy day. We were supposed to go several days ago but the sky was too blue to waste indoors. Little Turtle and Mantao had already visited the museum but ...

... are named with "horse" in them! The ceremony was incredible and totally exotic! Throughout the entire ceremony, our eyes kept wide open and our chins dropped and we were constantly looking at each other, thinking: this is unbelievable and beautiful. We were treated like royalty! After the dinner, the host took us to visit the memorial park of Genghis Khan ...

... married a nomad chief to secure peace. She is attributed with the ability to perform miracles. The tomb which was built in the Han Dynasty (BC) has a long history of around two thousand years. It is one of Inner Mongolia's major cultural relics under protection. The tomb is a colossal man-piled up earthen mound about thirty three meters ...

... site was commercialized because there were fun games, rides, etc that you could do there. Oh well, they have to make money somehow. Besides, the camel ride was totally awesome. It's not everyday that you get to ride a camel caravan through the desert. There was even desert paragliding, but I have bad luck and consequently the ride was shut down due to high winds right when I was about to buy the ticket. Grr!!

Finally the anticipated entry, my travels around Inner Mongolia. Well after Datong, took a black bus that crossed the mountain range leaving Han civilization behind to nomadic lands. The traverse was quiet the experience. More than a black bus it was a school bus that stopped, dropped off passengers and picked up new ones every 10 miles. At one time I had a guy sitting on ...