Oct.1st-8th Inner Mongolia | 3 Days Grassland+Desert Deep Tour
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Inner Mongolia | 3 Days Grassland+Desert Exploration Tour
Derset Camel Riding/Grassland Horse Riding
(CETtrip to inner mongolia 2018-06)
Highlights of this Tour
Taking side trip to Grassland from Beijing, you'll enjoy beautiful natural scenery, engage in featured activities, live in traditional Mongolian yurt, watch sunrise over the grassland. Trying some featured desert activities like sand exploration, camel riding, sand sliding, glider flying, motor racing etc.
Grassland Horse Riding: Take an optional horseback riding to visit a herdsman’s family and Aobao Hill, and Taste some local favorites such as mutton and other traditional cuisines.
Derset Camel Riding: Kubuqi Desert is featured by its amazing desert landscape and the whispering sand dunes. Try some featured desert activities like sand exploration, camel riding, sand sliding, glider flying, motor racing etc.
Inner Mongolia Museum: It is indeed a large and great museum which fully shows you the Mongolia history and culture. It is a window to see and know Inner Mongolia deeply.
All will be memorable experience for YOU!
Trip Overview
What attracts you most in Inner Mongolia? The endless blue sky, vast grasslands, nomadic tradition of ethnic Mongols, Naadam Festival in summer, legend of Genghis Khan and his Mongol Empire, Inner Mongolian specialty cuisine... or just because it’s a dreamland?
Day1: Beijing-Xilamuren Grassland-Horse Riding-. Live in the yurt on the grassland.
Day2: Xilamuren Grassland to Kubuqi Desert. Live in Hohhot City
Day3: Hohhot City-Inner Mongolia Museum-Beijing.
Life is a journey. Let’s ignite the torches in our dream and travel through Inner Mongolia with myth, legend, grasslands and deserts!
(CETtrip to inner mongolia 2018-06)
Basic Tour Information
Activity place: Inner Mongolia, China
Activity date: 2020 Every Friday! The date may have a little change when it comes to Holiday!
15th trip: Oct.1st-3rd National Holiday
16th trip: Oct.2nd-4th National Holiday
17th trip: Oct.3rd-5th National Holiday
18th trip: Oct.4th-6th National Holiday
19th trip: Oct.5th-7th National Holiday
Private Tour provided if you want to go with your family or friends! Feel free to contact: Suede: 18612035869
Meeting point 1: Weigongcun subway station, Exit B
Meeting time: 04:20am
Leaving time: 04:25
Meeting point 2:Huixinxijienankou subway station, Exit B
Meeting time: 04:30am
Leaving time: 04:35am
Meeting point 3: South Gate of BLCU
Meeting time: 04:45am
Leaving time: 05:00am
Note: If you have more than 15ppl, we will pick you up at your spot.
Traffic tools: Travelling Bus
Trip Fee: Round Bus+Meals+Hotel+Entrance Tickets+Hose Riding+CET Party
Normal Price: 1145RMB/pax, pay the depositfee 645RMB when you booked this trip
VIP Price: 1095RMB/pax (How to join CETVIP?) pay the deposite fee 595RMB when you booked this trip.
Group Discount: 1095RMB/pax if 3 or more than 3 ppl booked together, pay the deposite fee 595RMB when you booked this trip.
Kids Price: 795RMB if the kids is less than 1.2m
Single Room Fee: 400RMB If you want to live alone for 2 nights
About the left fee: Pay the left fee 500RMB when you get on our bus.
Participants: Min 15, (if less than 15 participants, this trip has to be cancelled)
Booking Hotline: Jane: 18612035869 (English &Mandari). Call us or add our wechat for help if you need!
Statement: No refund or change to the other CETtrips within 3 days before this trip.
FYI: If you are muslim and have more than 30ppl (More than 40ppl when holiday comes), we can provide muslim trip for you and arrange Muslim rastaurants in Hohhot city for you. Normal trip only has normal Chinese rastaurants
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Statement about the Trip Fee
What is included in the cost?
Round Traveling Bus fee for 3 days betweenBeijing and Inner Mongolia
Meals: Day1:Lunch and Dinner on thegrassland; D2 Breakfast Lunch and Dinner; D3 Breakfast and Lunch. 2 Big Mealsin the City (One Hotpot Lunch and one traditional Chinese Dinner )
Hotel: One night Mongolian Yurts, One Night in Standard hotel in Hohhot City. 2 ppl share one room. (Choose your room mate on the bus)
Roasted whole lamb (one per bus) if more than 30 people；Roast Lamb Leg if less than 30 people
Beers for the bonfire party and free drink water for the whole trip
Scenery tickets: all the senic spots
Horse-riding on the glassland
Kubuqi Desert Entrance ticket fee
Camel-riding in the desert
Shoes cover fee for the desert
Off-Road Vehicle fee in the desert.
Desert surfing car
Desert cable car ( 34mins; Asia's longestropeway in the desert)
Sand-sliding
Zip-line:High altitude Slide
3 days traveling ensurance fee
Guide’s service
What is not included in the cost?
Personal expenditures
Note: We want to have a positive effecteverywhere we go, we don’t take commissions or kickbacks, and we don’t take youon detours for shopping.
The first day lunch and dinner will be on the grassland, while we have meals, the local band will sing local mongoliar songs and dance for us, funny and deep cultural experience. the 2nd day we will have breakfast on the grassland.
After dinner we will have bonfire party, CET will provide free beers for you, and you can also enjoy the local band show during the bonfire party. If it is rainny, the party will be cancelled.
Fireworks and firecrackers are available on the grassland, not expensive.
Two people share one yurt, our yurt have indepent washing room.(VIP Yurt are provided for CET Group)
Please Note: Before May or after Oct. it may be too cold to live in the yurt, so we will arrange our people live in the nearby hotel if it is too cold.
About the arrangement in the desert
The second day we will have lunch nearby the derset (10km around), after lunch we will visit the desert
our trip fee includes all of the programs which are prvided in the desert spot (Private entertainment programs running by the locals are not included), which you need more than 3.5 hours to visit the desert.
Kubuqi Desert Entrance ticket fee
Camel-riding in the desert
Shoes cover fee for the desert
Off-Road Vehicle fee, local driver will take you to surfing in the desert.
Desert surfing car
Desert cable car ( 34mins; Asia's longest ropeway in the desert)
Sand-sliding
Zip-line: High altitude Slide
About the arrangement in hohhot city
3 Star hotel in the hohhot city, 2 ppl share one room, wifi is provided.
The 2nd day dinner we will have Chinese food, the 3rd day breakfast we will have in the hotel, and the 3rd day lunch we will have it in the halal hotpot restaurant (chengdu hotpot). Everyone can have a big plate of mutton.
Please Note: Inner Mongolia Museum is closed to visit on Monday, if the 3rd day of our trip date is on Monday, we will go to Dazhao Temple. The ticket fee is on your expense, which is not included in the trip fee, becasue the Museum is free.
Full Itinerary Day by Day
Day1: Beijing-Xilamuren Grassland-Horse Riding-. Live in the yurt on the grassland
Transfer: By Traveling bus, From Beijing to Grassland, 595km, 6.5hours on the way
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight on the Grassland, Sleeping in the Yurt. Mostly before May and after Oct, it will be too cold to live in the yurt, so we will arrange our people live in the nearby hotel.
Please Note: Dont forget to take your passport and prepare some snacks before you get on the bus, please drink less water when you get in the bus, the bus will travel on the high way for more than 6 hours so it is difficult to stop and find the toilet whenever you need.
Gather at our Meeting points, please dont be late, and then enjoy our traveling bus journey from Beijing to the Grassland(595 km away, about 7 hours’ driving). We will pass by Badaling Great Wall and Yinshan MountainsWall, after traveling 500 kilometers, if we didnt meet traffic jams we will arrive about 12:40, we will only have one stop about 9:30am during the travelling.
In Mongolian language, Xilamuren means “yellow water”, and some people would like to call it “Zhao River”. Xilamuren Grassland is teemed with green grass and fresh flowers every summer and autumn. Thanks to to the continual efforts made by the governments at all levels and companies concerned, the service quality is becoming better and better. As result, Xilamuren has been turned into one of the must visited pastures in Inner Mongolia. This grassland is about 90km away from Hohhot in the north. It is the closest grassland near Hohhot and is one of the most popular grassland for travelers from home and abroad relax on.
After we arrive at the Grassland, You’ll be warmly welcomed by local Mongolians who are colorfully dressed. They’ll present you a silver cup of wine; then our trip leader will arrange the yurt for you, two people share one yurt. and then we will go to have Lunch together, 10 people share one table. To be honest, the lunch is the normal tourist meal which may be not so good as you expected, but you can order some BBQ from their menu by yourself (not included).
After lunch we will take an horseback riding to visit a herdsman’s family and Aobao Hill, You are arranged to go to the stud farm to select the horse for your horseback riding. Appreciate the beautiful scenery of the grassland; taste some local favorites such as mutton and other traditional cuisines. Enjoy some traditional Mongolian activities like archery, horse racing, and Mongolian-style-wrestling performances.
After we finish horse riding, we can go back to our yurt and take a short rest and wait for dinner, 10 ppl share one table. The dinner is almost the same as Lunch, if you want Mongolia Palace Feast Meal as your dinner, we can arrange for you which is 180RMB/Pax on your own expense. If the weather is good, dont miss the sunset. It is just amazing.
In the evening, take part in a bonfire party and enjoy traditional dancing and local songs presented by the local Mongolians. After one day’s travel, you will stay in a Mongolian yurt, two people share one yurt, our yurt have indepent washing room. Far away from the light pollution, you will have chance to see the stars shinning in the night sky. If the weather is not good, the Bonfire Party will be cancelled.
Good to Know: This place has a large temperature difference between day and night. In midsummer night, it’s cool like in autumn. Dont forget to take heavy coat.
Day2: Xilamuren Grassland to Kubuqi Desert. Live in Hohhot City
Transfer: By traveling bus. From Grassland to Kubuqi Desert, 189km, 3hours on the way
Meals: Breakfast Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight in Hohhot City.
You will rise early in your yurt in order to catch the majestic sunrise over the grassland if you dont want to miss it, and you’ll be able to roam among the blue skies and the tranquil and untouched flowers of the plains.
After breakfast, we’ll drive to the Kubuqi desert. On the way, you will cross the bridge of Yellow River. Get on the Ordos Plateau and you can appreciate the great scene of plateau and canyon. It is 350km away from Grassland to the Desert, it will take us 3-4 hours.
Upon arrival, we will have lunch firstlynearby Kubuqi Desert, traditiona Chinese lunch, vegitable and meat dishes areavailable. Around 13:00 we will go to the desert. enter the hinterland of thedesert by cable car( 34mins ). Go Camel-riding on the sand and Sand Sliding、Zip-line、Off-RoadVehicle fee、Surfing Car. Or if you like hiking, you can hike a while in thedesert guiding by our guide. We will leave 3.5 hours for us to have fun in thedesert.
After we finish this program, we will have dinner nearby the desert or go back to Hohhot to have dinner. Today dinner is hotpot, vegetiable and meat provided.
From the desert to Hohot is around 180km, it will take us 2 hours to arrvie the city, and check in hotel.
Day3: Hohhot City-Inner Mongolia Museum-Beijing
Transfer: By Traveling bus, From Hohhot City to Beijing, 519km, 6h and 41mins on the way
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Please Note: Inner Mongolia Museum is closed to visit on Monday, if the 3rd day of our trip date is on Monday, we will go to Dazhao Temple. The ticket fee is on your expense, which is not included in the trip fee.
After breakfast, we will visit Inner Mongolia Museum which is a local comprehensive museum, boasting a good selection of Mongolia items and a historical lineage of this vast grassland. There are more than 100,000 sets of collections in the museum. Exhibitions of the flora and fauna and history of (Inner) Mongolia from the stone age until modern times, as well as on minerals and mining, space exploration, and dinosaurs. For the uniqueness of Inner Mongolia, the museum has a “grassland culture exhibition series” with the theme of “prairie culture” represented in both of the basic displays and thematic displays.
Inner Mongolia Museum is indeed a large and great museum which fully shows you the Mongolia history and culture. It is a window to see and know Inner Mongolia deeply.
After we finish visiting the museum, we will have hotpot lunch in hohhot city and then back to Beijing. If no traffic jams we can arrive around 8:00pm.
Additional Information:
Please be advised that there will be approximately 10-45 travelers per group
The above itinerary is for reference only, and is subject to change due to the weather and traffic conditions
Please inform us of any dietary restrictions and allergies if you booked our tour. Please remember to bring any medication that you need with you
Pregnant women, guests with heart attacks, high blood pressure, respiratory diseases, severe colds, and those who are not suitable for outdoor hiking are advised to carefully decide whether or not to travel according to their own conditions or doctor's advice
We will contact you between 8:00pmt o10:00pm a day before you travel to reconfirm the pick up time and place. Pleasekeep your contact lines or channels available. If you have not received anyconfirmation after 10:00pm, please contact customer service.
In case of severe inclement weather or other environmental problems beyond control that causes the tour to be unable to proceed, participants can opt for a reschedule.
Things to bring
Passport/ID card.
Comfortable, sturdy shoes, and a spare pair of shoes to change into at the end of the day.
Bring a few changes of clothes, including something warm for night time.
It's highly recommended you bring a waterproof outer layer and rain jacket.
Bring a book or pack of cards in case you get bored during the driving between the villages. (We don't think you'll get bored!)
Bring you camera and chargers for all your electronics.
Bring a backpack to hold water and food for the hiking. Bring a duffle bag or suitcase for the rest of your things – we can leave that at the hotel or on the bus.
Meals, water and snacks arenot all provided; bring extra snacks if you like!
Bring personal toiletries (shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste etc) and small towel.
Bring any personal medicine you might need. Your guide will have a basic first aid kit.
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