Yue Jia Business Hotel Zhongshan Hohhot

... checked, then another 2+ hrs for them to change the bogeys under the carriage to the larger Chinese track gauge.


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.

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.

... 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 ...

... songs while giving us tiny glasses of Mongolian liquor to drink out of. We learned that you have to pay for the singers to come to your table; obvious our host gave us the best package. After a stop at the gift shop, our host took us to visit yurts, movable houses for the herdsmen. All of the yurts are for tourists. We ...

... 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 ...

... I could've guessed that!) there was nothing short of desert theme park. There are jeeps, karts, sand ski's, sand sleds, ball games and so on. There's even a modern desert hotel building, a supermarket and large souvenir hall. So much for a serene nature's wonderland... (I'm a bit confused with the above paragraph as the hotel ...

... middle of August to the end of September) is the best time to explore the desert as the temperatures are very temperate. Hohhot City: Although Hohhot has only been the capital of Inner Mongolia since 1947, it has taken on the role with ease and with a rapidly growing population (currently at around 1.6 million) it has begun to challenge Baotou as the region's industrial and economic powerhouse. Despite the fact that ...

... crossed the plaza and turned right onto a busy street, also dark and none too promising. A block later, with no hotel in sight, a cabbie pulled up next to us and called out the window. I may not speak Chinese, but I speak cabbie just fine. I took the bag from the shoulder of the chap who was helping me and tried to convey to him, through the tone of my voice, both my appreciation for his help and my desire to find a damned hotel already. I then dumped my bags into ...

... had been trying to avoid the local tour guide who was insisting we went on a tour of the nearby grasslands that were 'almost as good as passing through Mongolia itself', and so far had been successful. The phone rang at one stage and Vinny had a rather strange conversation with a woman who spoke no English whatsoever. An hour or so later there was a knock on the door. Vinny had batted off the last visit from the tour guide so it was my turn. There was a relatively ...