Arriving in Hohhot at 10:16 pm, my family came to pick us up on the platform. It only took a 7.30 taxi ride to get home. Cabs in Hohhot start at 6 yuan and you can usually get to your destination within 10 yuan, it's not a big city.
Waking up and having breakfast, we had a loose schedule for the day and were only going to go to the Inner Mongolia Museum. Because it is the second time to come to Hohhot, the first time has already been to places such as Zhaojun Tomb and Dazhao, so we come this time, in addition to the Inner Mongolia Museum, other than only see the natural scenery, the excitement is in the back.
We first strolled around the Victoria Commercial Building in Hohhot, which is one of the bigger shopping malls in Hohhot and is very popular. There are many crafts counters on one side of the first floor of the building, and a special crafts booth in the lobby on the first floor. Here I spent 10 yuan for my daughter to buy a headdress of the Mongolian girl, for the future good photo. And for a friend to buy a small doll in Mongolian clothes and a Mongolian knife, 10 yuan each, and for my brother to buy 1 handmade cowhide money clip.
From the mall, I took a taxi for 6 yuan to the Inner Mongolia Museum, where the entrance fee is 10 yuan per person. In the entrance to buy a map of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Museum **** there are 4 exhibition halls, the first floor is the paleontology museum and Mongolian national costume museum, the second floor is the Mongolian history museum and the history of the revolution in Inner Mongolia museum. Each hall has a lecturer, 10 yuan to explain 1 hall. We did not look for interpreters, anyway, there are text instructions, first came to the paleontology museum, this museum is worth a look, here there is a mammoth skeleton (but really yo), the mammoth lived in the Ice Age, that is, mammoths, I really did not expect to be very large, is now two times as high as elephants. Only the skeleton is enough to daunting, if attached to the muscles and fur must be even taller. There are many fossils of prehistoric creatures in the museum, accompanied by photos and descriptions of the excavation. We also saw the skeleton of a dinosaur, which was 26 meters long and 12 meters high, and looked as big as a small airplane. We stayed the longest at the Paleontology Museum, which had some natural things to offer in comparison.
Then we visited the Mongolian National Costume Museum and the Mongolian History Museum, did not go to the Revolutionary Museum. The overall feeling is not bad, worth seeing, than the amusement park sound and electricity dinosaurs have to see.
Noon meal we went to the Cultural Palace Road, Mongolia Zhen meal, the family recommended beef jerky here, said only this one has, 60 yuan / catty, we want a half a catty, the taste is really good (and later back to Beijing and came here to order a catty to take away). This restaurant is next to the post office, very easy to find.
After a nap in the afternoon, we got up and went to the Mongolian base camp for dinner, which is on a hill overlooking downtown Hohhot. There was also an open-air song and dance show that night, but there were just too many mosquitoes to stay.
Family members helped us contact the Bright Travel Agency in the Daitian Building for a one-day tour of the Shaohe River for 130 yuan per person, including round-trip transportation, meals, and insurance. Our family and a few friends plus the guide and driver *** 11 people (not counting the 4-year-old daughter), the travel agency car is a modern 11-seat station wagon. 9:00 a.m. departure, the car nearly 2 hours to a grassland resort, time is close to dinner time, decided to eat first and then horseback riding. Here the grass is not very good, some sand, would like to go to Huitengxile grassland (locally known as Huiteng Liang or Huanghua ditch), but the other day it rained and the road was washed out, the traffic jam is not good to go, had to come to Xilamuren grasslands. Go to the grassland transportation is really convenient both advantages and disadvantages, go to Xilamuren, the road is good to go, but the landscape is general, go to Huitengxile, the road is not good to go, but the scenery is good.
Eating a meal to fill the stomach of the grassland meal, the table came in a Mongolian girl, said for us to toast, you can point song, sing a song is 10 yuan. She stood between the tables and sang one song after another, toasting to several men. At the end of the day, she wanted to charge us 60 yuan for singing. We said we haven't ordered you to sing, sing what is also can't understand, finally returned half price, charged us 30 yuan.
After dinner, go horseback riding, 50 yuan / hour, can take us to call the river ranchers' homes and swamps, round-trip distance of about 2 hours. Because of the old and young, we can not ride too far, and finally discussed must be led by a horse, only half an hour ride to the far side of a piece of sheep. After riding for half an hour, we went back to the yurt to rest and wait for the Mongolian wrestling match. My husband and I walked around outside the yurt, it was so far from the grassland we had in mind, we had a hard time connecting the grassland we had in mind with this patchy meadow, I said to my husband, maybe we can see the real grassland in Hulunbeier.
In the wrestling match, one of our fellow travelers actually dropped a bok, the wrestler was not convinced and asked for a rematch, but we took it as it came. In fact, they lost on a slight of hand.
Here is another episode, because the next day is the opening ceremony of the Zhaojun Festival, Meng Tingwei also came to the Zhaohua, we ran into in the grassland resort, we were in the same car a few people in addition to me and a few children were photographed with her.
On the way back to Hohhot, I passed by Wuchuan with fields of rapeseed flowers, and stopped to take some pictures.
Dinner went to half a mu land to eat farmhouse, this place is a bit like Liu Laogan's Longquan Villa, in a mountain pass, from the city drive 30, 40 minutes. The food tasted good, and it had a very farmhouse feel to it, with small bridges and wells, and red lanterns hanging in every house.
For dinner, we went back to the Western Wine City on Xilin Gol Road, where there are performances after 9:00 p.m. Hard plastic cones for shaking dice are placed on each table, but this is not used for shaking dice but for knocking on the table to beat the beat and applaud. The place had a great atmosphere and the singers and dancers were all working hard. Played until after 11pm at night before going home.
Departure at 8:30 a.m. for Ringsha Bay in Baotou, taking the Hubao highway. (Note: Don't go out at the intersection that says Resounding Sand Bay, go to the next one and go out again.) Almost 11:00 came to the resonant sand bay, would have liked to go to the big yurt dinner to see the Ordos wedding show, but the show to more than half an hour, and only 11:30 and 1:00 two shows. There were only four of us, no a la carte, only 260 RMB for a private table, and the show tickets were 100 RMB per person. Didn't see the wedding show, just went to the 20 RMB/person buffet, which was only good for wrapping up, highly recommend bringing your own lunch.
Buy your tickets, 50 yuan per person, including a round trip on the aerial tramway, a cable car ride to the top of the sandy mountain, which also crosses a dry riverbed. The cable car ride can buy straw hats, 7 yuan / top, wear like a cowboy in the West, if you do not wear a hat can buy a top, otherwise the sun can not stand. Take the cable car to the top of the sandy hill, here there are rental shoe covers, 10 yuan / pair. I rented a pair, but my husband and kids had to walk barefoot. We marched towards the camel riding spot and after walking for a while they realized that the sand was so hot on their feet that they couldn't stand it for a while, with the kids being held. Hubby wanted to go and rent shoe covers but was almost at the camel rental place and expected to rent them there. When we arrived at the shed, there were not many shoe covers here, and they were the same price as at the entrance. Everyone was fully armed, each person put on a hat, and I even put a hand towel on the child's head, and then put on a sun hat, like an Arab. But then again, the Arab's clothes are really very scientific, white does not absorb heat, large robes pick up the sun and ventilation, really very suitable for wearing in the desert. Paid for the camels, 35$/half hour.
We rode our camels through the desert, and from time to time we came across teams of camels, all tourists like us. Riding on the camel is very comfortable, this guy walks very steadily, and there is no sound at all when walking, on the way when we do not talk, the desert is really quiet, except for the occasional sound of desert motorcycle start from the entrance. The head of the hot sun, riding on the camel, a moment to feel thirsty, fortunately with mineral water. When we got to the end of the camel ride for half an hour, we asked the camel master to take a picture of each of us. The finish line was at the top of a higher dune, but not as high as the dune for the 1 hour ride. The feeling of walking in the desert is that when you climb to the top of one dune, you can always see another dune higher, and then it's just a constant climb up and down. Going back down the road, back for there are a lot of big downhill slopes, it's hard to ride on a camel, it's not bumpy going up, it's bumpy going down, and your body keeps having to lean back.
Riding for more than half an hour, and back to the end. We took a break, mostly because it was too hot. After the break we climbed a few more dunes and murdered a lot of memory. Then we hit the road and left Rattlesnake Bay at 2:00 PM and returned home to Hohhot at 4:40 PM. There is a Qingcheng Park in Hohhot, which has been visited before, similar to Longtan Lake or Taoranting or other parks. Today we want to take our daughter to go boating there, but when we arrived at the park entrance, we found that the gate was closed and the inside was being remodeled. Boredom, we walked to the Tianyuan Shopping Mall shopping mall, my husband bought a pair of casual pants, the mall is very few people, do not see that it is the weekend. I think it is still Victoria commercial building lively, so go to Victoria again, my daughter into the Beibei paradise, play a lot of fun.
Asked the family, usually Hohhot how to spend their time, the answer is: shopping. We also shopped a few, there are Tianyuan commercial building, Victoria commercial building, Wenzhou Street, Manda shopping mall. The first two are high-end shopping malls, the latter two for the commodities market.