9-Day Inner Mongolia Grassland to Desert Tour

Hohhot, Xilamuren Grassland, Baotou, Kubuqi Desert, Bayan Nur, Ejina Banner

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9 Days Inner Mongolia Tour from Grassland to Desert tour map

Inner Mongolia grasslands travel experience

Tour Type: Private Tour

Tour Code: SKY-Inner Mongolia-04

Tour Highlights:

Discover Inner Mongolia through its broad grassland landscapes and herds of cattle and sheep.

Appreciation the magical landform changing from grassland to desert

Enjoy the stunning view of populus euphratica forest in autumn

Track the history of Silk Road and pay a visit to the historic ruins

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Day 1Arrival Hohhot

Transfer to hotel

Meals: No Meals
Recommended Hotel: Mercure Hotel ★★★★

Arrive in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia. Meet your guide at the airport, transfer to the hotel and keep the remainder of the day free.

Day 2Hohhot

Zhaojun Tomb, Inner Mongolia Museum, Dazhao Temple

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Recommended Hotel: Mercure Hotel ★★★★

After breakfast, meet your guide at the hotel for a Hohhot city tour. Begin at Zhaojun Tomb , one of the largest Han-dynasty tombs and traditionally identified as the resting place of Wang Zhaojun, whose husband was a Xiongnu Chanyu. Continue to the Inner Mongolia Museum, whose 15,000-square-meter building includes about 7,000 square meters of exhibition space devoted to Mongolian objects and the region's history.

After lunch, visit Dazhao Temple. Built in 1580 as Hohhot's first Lamaism temple, it was historically known as the Silver Buddha Temple because it originally housed a silver image of Sakyamuni.

At night, enjoy your free leisure evening to explore the city.

Zhaojun Temple

Day 3Hohhot – Xilamuren Grassland

Xilamuren Grassland, Honggeer Aobao

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner
Recommended Hotel: Mongolian-style Tent

Leave the hotel in the morning for the approximately 1.5-hour drive to Xilamuren Grassland. On arrival, attend the local Xiamajiu welcome ceremony, then walk independently across the grassland or choose horse riding at your own expense.

In the afternoon, visit to Honggeer Aobao where you will see the ethnic performance and join in the activities of local custom. And you will watch the famous show – Legend of Monan.

At night, you will attend the Mongolian banquet for dinner and wear the Mongolian style dress, which allows you experience to be a Mongolian nobleman.

you will stay in a Mongolian-style tent for overnight. Far away from the light pollution, you will have chance to see the stars shinning in the night sky.

Xilamuren Grassland

Day 4Xilamuren Grassland – Baotou – Kubuqi Desert

Wudang Lamasery, Drive to Kubuqi Desert

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner
Recommended Hotel: Desert Hotel ★★★

Rise early if you would like to see sunrise over the grassland. After breakfast, drive about 2.5 hours to Baotou and visit Wudang Lamasery, one of China's four noted Tibetan Buddhist temples together with the Potala Palace in Tibet, Taer Lamasery in Qinghai and Labrang Temple in Gansu. It is the largest of these temples in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

After lunch, drive about 2.5 hours along the Desert-Crossing Highway into the Kubuqi Desert. Watch the landscape change from grassland to desert, then walk among the dunes or choose activities such as sand skiing, strop or a Land Rover desert crossing at your own expense. Stay overnight at the Desert Hotel.

Kubuqi Desert

Day 5Kubuqi Desert – Bayan Nur

Drive to Bayan Nur, Wuliangsuhai Lake

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner
Recommended Hotel: Shuhe Hotel ★★★

You could get up early to catch the sunrise view if you were interested. After breakfast, enjoy your free leisure morning.

At noon, check out and drive about 1.5 hours across the Yellow River to Wuliangsuhai Lake Scenic Area. This oxbow lake, formed by a change in the river's course, is a large grassland lake in a desert and semi-desert region. Take a small boat for a closer view of the water and reed marshes.

After the visit, drive about two hours to Bayan Nur for the overnight stay.

Wuliangsuhai Lake Scenic Area

Day 6Bayan Nur – Ejina Banner

Drive to jina Banner

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner
Recommended Hotel: Tai Hao International Hotel ★★★

After breakfast, please check out. Today, you will spend a long journey around 7 hours to Ejina Banner. On the way, you will visit to Fantasy Canyon where is famous for its peculiar landscape. Arrive at Ejina Banner in the late afternoon and stay overnight.

Ejina Banner

Day 7Ejina Banner

Ejina Populus Euphratica Forest National Nature Reserve,

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner
Recommended Hotel: Tai Hao International Hotel ★★★

Spend the day exploring the Ejina Populus Euphratica Forest National Nature Reserve, known for its Populus euphratica habitat. The reserve's eight sections present different views of golden forest and open desert. Return to the hotel after the visit.

Ejina Populus Euphratica

Day 8Ejina Banner

Juyanhai Lake, Heicheng Historic Site

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner
Recommended Hotel: Tai Hao International Hotel ★★★

Begin the second day in Ejina at Juyanhai Lake. Beneath clear skies, gulls can often be seen feeding among the broad reed beds. Early risers may also use the lakeside setting to photograph sunrise.

In the afternoon, visit the Heicheng Historic Site, described as the largest and most complete ancient city site along the historic Silk Road. The wider visit also includes the unusual dead Populus euphratica woods, Red Town Historic Site and Datong Town Historic Site. After sunset, return to the hotel.

Heicheng Historica Site

Day 9Departure Ejina Banner

Transfer to airport

Meals: Breakfast

At the scheduled time, meet your guide and driver at the hotel for the airport transfer and flight to your next destination.

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Tour Price (US$ per person)

Hotel Class	Group Size	Dec. ~ Feb.	Mar. ~ Nov.
Economy Hotel ★★★	2 ~ 5 pax	From on request	From on request
Economy Hotel ★★★	6 ~ 9 pax	From on request	From on request
Comfortable Hotel ★★★★	2 ~ 5 pax	From on request	From on request
Comfortable Hotel ★★★★	6 ~ 9 pax	From on request	From on request
Deluxe Hotel ★★★★★	2 ~ 5 pax	From on request	From on request
Deluxe Hotel ★★★★★	6 ~ 9 pax	From on request	From on request

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Due to the uncertainties of this tour, such as special local conditions , the changes of accommodation rate, etc, the tour has to be tailor-made and its price is on request. Please tell us in advance your group information inclusive of departure date, number of pax, and other individual needs, which will be helpful to work out a fit program and the right price.

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5.0

PunkNelson

5.0

Great Hotel stay Very Nice Tour guides Convenient planned daily trips Average selection of restaurant for food though

Kiwimac53

5.0

We were looking for a tour in SW China while in the area for work and found this one. While we wouldn't normally get a private tour but surprisingly it was actually cheaper than most of the group tours in the area and was great value. While I would usually rather keep one guide for the whole tour, as you get to know each other and they get to know what you are interested in, we changed guides 5 times during this trip (fortunately we had the same guide in Kunming at the start and end of the tour which was a real bonus as Murphy, our Kunming based guide, was excellent.) In this case changing guides had the advantage of local knowledge at each site so compensated for the change. Of the 4 guides we had 3 excellent and 1 very good with each of them working hard to look after us and make sure we enjoyed our trip. Vicky, our Dali based guide was also extremely good making our time there a highlight. The tour gives you 2 days at each base ie travel in the morning, have the afternoon and the next day touring the area then drive to the next base. We chose the driving tour as we feel it gives you a better experience of the area and you get to see the locals in action. All the drivers we had were great – they went out of their way to look after us and were very safe, which is saying something for driving in China. While all of the guides were very fluent in English none of the drivers could speak English which was a slight disadvantage as you didn't have the guides with you when traveling between bases but the friendliness and helpfulness of the drivers more than made up for this.
The tour was very well organised and we knew what we were doing from the time we met our guide on arrival at the Kunming railway station to when we walked through security at the airport on our way out. The tour comes with 4,5 and 6 star accommodation choices and we went for the cheapest 4 star option. While the English at the hotels was limited the guides made sure we were checked in and out and took care of any issues (which were minimal). The 4 star option is largely “Chinese style” hotels ie designed for Chinese visitors with breakfast consisting of what many westeners would consider dinner style food but there was always eggs and toast for the less adventurous. The hotels were all clean and comfortable and generally very well located. The Hotel in Kunming (Jin Jang Inn) was a bonus as it seemed higher than 4 star and we stayed there both on our way in and out. As well as breakfast, lunch came with the tour which was enjoyable as the guides choose the restaurants so we got a variety. I got the feeling that most of the restaurants were owned by friends or family or there was some arrangement with the guide, but as you get to formally review each guide and the meals at the end of each stop they work hard to make sure you enjoy the meal and there was always an abundance of food. We tried a range of local cuisine and there was only one meal we didn't think was up to par. You get your own dinner which also suited us as there is invariably a range of restaurants or for the more adventurous there is the street vendors and you can choose what you want. The vehicles we were driven in were all very good- plenty of space and very comfortable.
Being a private tour, while there was a set itinerary, which was diverse and very interesting with something for most people, the guides could tweak it to suit individual interests eg more time at one site and less at another. It is easy to get a bit templed out but overall the itinerary was a good mic of nature and culture. I would thoroughly recommend the tour and the company and we will be looking to the company if/when we go back – Guilin is next on the list as the guides were very happy to discus what they thought we would and wouldn't enjoy based on working with us on this tour,

N2265ZIinfo

5.0

Excellent guides, flexible and knowledgeable travel agent. They speak good English. Our trip was very well organized. We are 100% happy and I can recommend Yun Sky Travel to everybody.

Wesley O

5.0

I contacted Yun Sky Travel for a 13 day China vacation (Beijing/Xian/Yangtze River cruise/Shanghai) and right from the start Bonnie provided me with great choices and package options. Throughout the entire planning and even during the trip Bonnie was there for us following up and making sure everything was perfect. Thank you Bonnie for making our China vacation unforgettable.

Johnf8958

5.0

From the minute I contacted Vicky at Yun Sky Travel to book our holiday, to the time we were taken to Pudong airport for our flight home, the experience was perfect.
My wife and I visited Beijing, Xian and Shanghai and all of our tour guides were fluent in English, very knowledgeable and very friendly.
Thank you Vicky and all at YUNSKY and I will definitely be in contact when I return to China.

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