COMING SOON: VIDEOS/PICTURES/BLOG POSTThis week, China has enjoyed a national holiday celebrating China's National Day, 1st October. After only four days of class, all lessons were suspended and eight of us visited Inner Mongolia as part of an arranged tour.
The First Day
Our tour lasted from Wednesday till Friday, consisting of three days and two nights. The first day we awoke at the ghastly hour of 4:30 to depart form Beijing to Hohhot, the capital city of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region under Chinese sovereignty.
During the first night we slept in a Mongolian Yurt, the traditional dwelling of Mongolian nomads made from a wicker frame and animal pelts (ours was a more modern Yurt and did not use animal pelts). Eight of us slept under the stars amid the arid Inner Mongolian grasslands, before awakening the next day at 7:00.The Second Day
The second day began early with a modest breakfast before we took to the grasslands on horseback.
The Third Day
On the tour's third day we visited Xiangshanwan or "singing sands gorge" located in the Gobi desert for a morning where people enjoyed dune walking, camel riding, dune sledging and jumping down the dunes...
Let's just say a budget trip to Inner Mongolia with a dodgy Chinese tour guide was... interesting to say the least...
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