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The Gobi Desert
The Gobi Desert is one of the strangest places I've ever been. You get there by bus and then catch a cable car to cross a small valley. On the other side, a huge pile of sand socks are waiting – everyone wear them because you seriously do need them. The sand dunes go on for kilometres as far as the horizon. To get further into the desert we ride an old military half-truck which has been converted to look something like a Viking war ship. It ...
Final day in Inner Mongolia
... I elected not to ride the camels as they looked slow and were contained to a fixed path on the desert grounds. I did ride on the amphibious vehicle with Jeff, Dee, Karin and Liz. We instructed the driver to go as fast as he can, and he did not disappoint. The vehicle did not have seat belts and required us to hand onto the metal rollover cage that surrounded the vehicle. We were blazing through the desert sand and taking in insane speeds over hills. It was probably the best ...
Trip to Inner Mongolia Part 2 (End)
... from entering your shoes, but Brian and myself decided to be cheap and not get the piece of cloth that goes around your shoes. In the Xiangshawan Desert there were many activities, such as camel riding, quad riding (people sit beside you and control it so not really worth it and doesn't seem fun), ATV (can drive on sand and has a propeller to go through water), sand sliding, large boat looking thing on wheels that acted as a people carrier through the desert, and so on.... ...
Baotou
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Baotou Temples
... of them had ever witnessed this before either.
I also learned that there are respectively more people in Baotou who believe in religion than in other parts of China, why, I'm not so sure. But there is a place in the city that is considered holy by all the religions: Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. I saw a mosque and three churches today.
The first temple I went to was on my second day here. We, me Tina and her parents, went to the largest ...