Day 1 Hohhot (   ) |
Our guide will pick you up at Hohhot airport and transfer to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, an important tourist center in the mid-Inner Mongolian Scenic Zone. |
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[ Optional ] Xilamuren Grassland: Xilamuren Grassland is the first grassland tourist attraction opened in Hohhot. In summer and autumn, the pleasant climate, the blue sky and white clouds, the rolling grass, the wandering flocks and herds, the passionate herdsmen and their Mongolian food will undoubtedly leave you with a deep impression. |
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Day 2 Hohhot ( B,L,D ) |
In the morning, we will drive to visit Xilamuren Grassland. Lunch enjoy tasting Mongolian flavour - finger mutton. Horses riding is local people's characteristic, you may have a try, but riding fee is on your own. During May to Septemper, activities in grassland including horses riding, watching horse racing and wrestling performances, visiting herdsman' family and Aobao hill, enjoying wonderful Mongolian folk songs and dances after dinner. |
Xilamuren Grassland | Xilamuren Grassland is the first grassland tourist attraction opened in Hohhot. In summer and autumn, the pleasant climate, the blue sky and white clouds, the rolling grass, the wandering flocks and herds, the passionate herdsmen and their Mongolian food will undoubtedly leave you with a deep impres…… |
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[ Optional ] Meidaizhao Lamasery: Meidaizhao Lamasery is another important religious center of Baotou. What is peculiar about the lamasery is that it was constructed imitating the Han style architecture in Central China and combining with elements of Tibetan and Mongolian buildings. |
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Day 3 Hohhot ( B,L,D ) |
Watching sunrise on Xilamuren Grassland, then drive about 3 hours Baotou city to visit Meidaozhao. After that, drive 45km to visit the Resonant Sand Gorge, a mystery of nature beyond man's knowledge. (Camels are available, if you want to riding, the fee is on your own.) Drive back Erdos (Eerduosi) city after our tour. |
Meidaizhao Lamasery | Meidaizhao Lamasery is another important religious center of Baotou. What is peculiar about the lamasery is that it was constructed imitating the Han style architecture in Central China and combining with elements of Tibetan and Mongolian buildings. | Kubuqi Resonant Sand Gorge | Kubuqi Resonant Sand Gorge in Eerduosi is a not easily accessible area of numerous sand dunes. It receives its name from the echoing 'Shhhh' that the sand makes as you step on its surface, the sounds like automobile and aircraft engines, a phenomenon nobody can explain. |
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[ Optional ] Kubuqi Resonant Sand Gorge: Kubuqi Resonant Sand Gorge in Eerduosi is a not easily accessible area of numerous sand dunes. It receives its name from the echoing 'Shhhh' that the sand makes as you step on its surface, the sounds like automobile and aircraft engines, a phenomenon nobody can explain. |
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Day 4 Hohhot ( B,L ) |
After breakfast, drive 1.5 hours to visit Genghis Khan's Mausoleum, later drive to visit the Five Pogoda Temple, back to Hohhot to visit the Inner Mongolia Museum, where the biggest dinosaur skeletons can be viewed. At last, pay a visiting to art and craft factory. |
Inner Mongolia Museum | Inner Mongolia Museum is a regional-level museum focused on collecting artifacts relating to ethnic history especially the northern tribes called Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qidan, Mongolians and others. It holds 44,000 objects among which quite a few are rare treasures seldom seen in China. | Five Pagodo Temple | Five-Pagoda Temple, also called Jingangzuo Dagoba, is a Buddhist temple in the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia in north-west China. It is located in the older part of the city in the vicinity of Qingcheng Park.
| Genghis Khan Mausoleum | The Mausoleum of Genghis Khan is located along a river in Kandehuo Enclosure, Xinjie Town, Ejen Khoruu Banner, Ordos Prefecture-Level City (formerly Yeke Juu league). |
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[ Optional ] Five Pagodo Temple: Five-Pagoda Temple, also called Jingangzuo Dagoba, is a Buddhist temple in the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia in north-west China. It is located in the older part of the city in the vicinity of Qingcheng Park.
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Day 5 Hohhot ( B ) |
Free at leisure till transferred to take flight to your next destination. Your pleasant Inner Mongolia tour ends here. |
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