Phoenix Hotel Hohhot

... checked, then another 2+ hrs for them to change the bogeys under the carriage to the larger Chinese track gauge.<br><br><br>also, when leaving the Mongolian side the soldiers dotted along the side of the track saluted the train. When entering the Chinese side, Chinese soldiers did the same. <br><br>Nearing Huhehot the countryside became greener and crops replaced livestock. Also there were fewer gers, we were now seeing permanent crude brick ...

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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.

... 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 ...

At 8:30am, we set out on a 2-hour drive to Gegen Tala township, a tourist attraction where visitors have a chance to experience the Mongolian festival including visiting yurts (moving tents for the herdsmen). July is the traditional Nadamu festival so we got there in time to watch a horse show--Told you everything has ...

... is also worth a walk around and best of all; The museum is free! Inner Mongolia Museum. Exhibitions of the flora and history of Inner Mongolian. For those interested in history, the Inner Mongolia Museum would be a ...

We set out for the Great Wall then Inner Mongolia. We were told that it would be much cooler in the north so we looked forward to a more bearable weather. Mr. Zou was our driver, and he is an excellent driver. How do I know if a driver is a good one? Simple. If a driver does not make me dizzy and nauseous, he is a good driver. That says a lot about a driver's ...

... I rose early and headed down stairs for the free buffet breakfast that the Feitian Hotel offers. I would list it as probably the most useless breakfast in the history of free buffet breakfasts. You are handed one boiled egg as you walk in the door and you then have a choice of three different trays and one of those trays contains small bread rolls. The other two are cabbage and some turnipy tasteless thing! What a ...

... of an enigma. Somehow he knew Granny and somehow her death was very difficult for him. I had no idea of the relationship other than the fact that Granny, being an adventurous woman during her life, had gone to China to teach English at some point in the last 30 years. Tim was one of her students - that's all I knew. Tim was a student then and is now an Organic Chemistry professor at the University of Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia, of course, is China, but is ...

Wow, so much has happened since I last wrote you, I hope I remember to get everything in. First of all, I just got an email from mr. Perkins picturing me on the front cover. YIKES!!! Who made that decision!! Ahh I'm so embarrassed. I do not give permission for any of my e-mails to be published, by the way. Ok, so I last left you in Tibet. Our last day there we ventured out to the Samye monastery via all modes of transportation. We took a bus through ...