Pearl Inner Mongolia Hohhot

The train to Huhehot was not as good as the others, well work and bit smelly. <br>Our journery was taking us across the edge of the Gobi. The land was quite barren of vegetation of any size, just clumps of grass surviving in very dusty sandy soil, although some Nomads still manage to keep livestock in these conditions. <br><br>Border Crossing<br>The border crossing took 5 1/2 hrs, about 3 hours for formalities including us all having our ...

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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.

... early 80's) to meet up with the tour group that had already left a few hours before. one the drive, we noticed that the yurts i was excited to sleep in were no longer portable tents, but rather stationary structures that were erected in villages to accommodate to the tourists. sad, i know. there were yurt villages upon yurt villages all over the once barren grasslands. speaking of the grasslands, we thought the grass would be waist to shoulder ...

... learn about Mongolians. After we returned to our hotel, Mr. Wang offered to take us to a diner but we refused as we all can't wait for an evening off and definitely no more lamb. After refreshing up and having some rest, we talked over to a restaurant across from our hotel and ate a light diner. Then we called it a day.

... room as the photos will show most of what we saw. I tried searching the net for something descriptive but the paragraph below is all I could find. For those who do love museums it really is a great place. The ...

... cleanness, and night beauty. We passed a large group of temples and took a walk towards it. It was after the temple open hours so we could only marvel the magnificent look from the large open ground outside its front gate. We did not have another day to visit the temple although we would very much like to. The Temple is called Da Zhe Temple. What a great day!

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Maaate, what a day! Here I lay in Hohhot city, the capital of the Inner Mongolia Province. Both Luo Wei and I have just experienced the delights of eating Mongolian Hotpot in Inner Mongolia. I wonder though, should I actually call it Inner Mongolian Hotpot? So now I have eaten Mongolian Hotpot in both Mongolia and Inner Mongolia! Who's a happy boy huh! This morning (backing Datong) Lou Wei ...

... one, and your other loved ones, you don't get immersion in your emotions. Instead you reach a stressed stasis. Maybe emotions are a large tangle of rope. A big mass of twiny strands of complexity. Maybe when you are alone and in survival mode, instead of unravelling them to examine each strand one by one, you just tighten it all up really hard so you don't have to worry about any loose ends snagging on a jagged corner of the jagged world around you. Tim was a ...

... one of the grasslands in the vicinity of Hohhot. After 2 hours of chitchatting with the locals, they dropped us off in the middle of nowhere. There we started looking for a family of someone to do business. We found a sketchy office renting yurts and finally agreed on price, location and style. We then had to further travel about 35 mins to the location of the yurts...