Shangri-La Hotel,Huhhot 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 ...

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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.

... passed through since tourism caught on. regardless, eunice and i were determined to at least get a horseback riding experience. and what an experience it was. first off, my but still hurts from the mongolian saddles we were forced to squeeze into. more so, poor eunice. i think they gave her a kiddie saddle. my wife may be small, but she is no toddler. the horseback riding tour consisted of three hours of walking the horses across the grasslands ...

... to do with horses!. Joseph and Pete rode a Go-Cart around the track field before the show started. The Nadamu event scheduled for the time we were there included Mongolian wrestling and horse race/acrabatic show. Lunch was in a huge yurt-like building that is called "Thousand Guest Banquet Hall". It looked like it ...

... place to visit. Located at East Xinhua Street, this museum covers an area of 5, 000 square meters (53, 821 square feet). The collection here has distinctive ethnic and local features. Cultural relics of Hun, Donghu ...

... in my eyes at least. The day we were leaving Beijing that had been hot and humid, the weather turned cool due to a rain the previous night somewhere near the city. The new Badaling Highway took us to the Wall in less than an hour. The world's most famous wonder totally transformed from what I remembered. No more chaotic parking lot, no more trash on ground ...

... waste of time this breakfast was! Californian Beef Noodles was just across the road! What a bugger! Not Happy! As we crossed the road to the train we passed several buses out front and one of them was heading to Hohhot city. Little did we know then that we should have thrown our train tickets away and purchased new tickets for the bus to take us north. We both knew that we didn't have seat tickets but usually after ...

... close to Mongolia - North and West of Beijing. My grandmother had gone on an adventure to teach English in the 80's when China opened up to things like expatriate English teachers. She was one of two expatriates in all of Inner Mongolia, a region probably as big as Texas. Guess what? I just accidentally lost a bunch of heartfelt things that I had written about my time in Huhehaote and it got deleted. Man I hate Travelpod sometimes. These blogs are a pain in the ...

... villages and wilderness to a random river where a sketchy ferry awaitedus. When I say ferry, it was more of a glorified crabbing boat about 6 ft wide and no longer than our living room. We all piled on there while the drivr stood up in the back and directed the puttputt motor like some Asian gondola. The ride was beautiful though, and about an hour later we got to somewhere on the other side of the river where we were met by two jeepish vehicles. They ...