2021 Inner Mongolia | 3 Days ​Derset+Grassland Highlights Tour

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2021 Inner Mongolia | 3 Days Grassland+Desert Exploration Tour

Derset Camel Riding/Grassland Horse Riding

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.

• Watch sunrise and appreciate the beautiful scenery of Xilamuren Grassland;

• Mongolia Palace Feast Meal: The most grandest meal, dress Mongolia Royal Clothes, and enjoy all kinds of Mongolia sacrifice performances during this meal.

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-Hohhot City Overnight in Hohhot City. The rest day is your own time to explore this city.

• Day2 Hohhot City-Kubuqi Desert-Xilamuren Grassland. Live in the yurt on the grassland.

• Day3: Xilamuren Grassland Horse Riding-Beijing

Life is a journey. Let’s ignite the torches in our dream and travel through Inner Mongolia with myth, legend,grasslands and deserts!

FYI: We will go to Inner Mongolia By HighSeep Train, Only 2.5hours from Beijing to Hohhot City, and 4 hours from Beijing to Baotou City which is colsed to desert. 

Basic Tour Information

Activity place: Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia, China

Activity date: 2021 Group Tour Date

• Every Friday (Holiday price is different)

• Private Tour provided if you want to go with your family or friends! Welcome to consult our customer service.

Trip Length: 3D/2N

Leaving time: Friday at BeijingBei Railway Station, only 2.5 hours you can arrive hohhot city by highspeed train from Beijing.

Back time: Sunday around 19:00 from Hohhot City to Beijing.

Traffic tools: Highspeed train and local traveling bus

Trip Fee: Round Highspeed Train tickets+Local traveling bus +Meals+Hotel+All Entrance Tickets

• Normal Price: 1585RMB/pax

• Couple Discount: 1535RMB/pax if  2people booked together

• Kids Price: 695RMB if the kids is less than 1.2m and dont need train tickets

• Single Room Fee: 240RMB If you want to live alone

• Please note: Holiday price will be 180RMB more than normal date.

Participants: The Group trip fee is for at least 4 people, if only two people the price will 380RMB/pax more to make the trip confirmed.

Driver and Vehicle: Drivers are local, polite, friendly and helpful, taking you to your tourist sites, hotels, airport/train stations in safety. All kinds of vehicle are offered, and yours depends on the size of the group. Usually, we offer sedan cars, SUVs, business vans (MPV) and different types of buses.

Booking Hotline: Kate 15522215077  (English & Mandarin)

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Please Note: If you are interested in our trip but not in beijing,  please feel free to contact our travel advisor

Statement: No refund or change to the other CETtrips within 3 days before this trip.

More than 85% travelers choose CETtrip to visit Inner Mongolia!

Statement about the Trip Fee

What is included in the cost?

• Round HighSpeed Train Tickets between Beijing and Inner Mongolia, 2nd Class seat ticket.

• 3 Days local bus fee

• Meals: Day2: Lunch and Special Mongolia Dinner on the grassland: Mongolia Palace Feast Meal; Day3 Breakfast and Lunch (Simple Tourist Meal); 

• Hotel: One night Mongolian Yurts, 2 ppl share one room. one night in hohhot city, 3 star hotel.

• Scenery tickets: all the senic spots

• Horse-riding on the glassland fee

• Kubuqi Desert Entrance ticket fee

• Camel-riding in the desert fee

• Shoes cover fee for the desert fee

• Off-Road Vehicle fee in the desert fee

• Desert surfing car fee

• Desert cable car ( 34mins; Asia's longestropeway in the desert)

• Sand-sliding fee

• Zip-line:High altitude Slide fee

• 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.

Statement about the Train Ticket

• CET will buy HighSpeed train tickets for you, once we get your tickets, we will inform you in our group or text you. Both way are 2nd Class seat tickets

• We will try to arrange all of the participants in the same train firstly, but if there is no tickets available, we have to take different train.

• All the train tickets are sold randomly, so it is a little difficult to get the sequential tickets during holiday, hope you can understand and book the trip in advance.

Statement about the arrangement

About the arrangement on the grassland

• The 2nd day 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 3rd day we will have breakfast and Lunch on the grassland. These two meals are just simple tourist meals, will not be a sumptuous feast.

• After dinner we will have bonfire party 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, and not expensive.

• Two people share one yurt, our yurt have indepent washing room.

About the arrangement in 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

Full Itinerary Day by Day

Day1: Beijing-Hohhot City Overnight in Hohhot City. The rest day is your own time to explore this city.

Transfer: By High Speed Train, From Beijing to Hohhot City 478km, 2.5hours by highspeed train.

Meals: None

Accommodation: Overnight in Hohhot City, 3 star hotel

Welcome to Hohhot, the Capital of Inner Mongolia! Clear the customs and retrieve your baggage by yourself upon arrival, be greeted by our tour guide in the airport or train station. A comfortable vehicle with experienced driver will transfer you directly to your hotel in Hohhot. Your guide will help you check in. The rest of today is on your own to explore the "Green City" in Mongolian.

Day2 Hohhot City-Kubuqi Desert-Xilamuren Grassland. Live in the yurt on the grassland.

Transfer: By traveling bus. From Hohhot City to Kubuqi Desert, 194km, about 3 hours; from Desert to Grassland 200km, 3 hours.

Meals: Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Overnight on the Grassland, Sleeping in the Yurt.

In the Morning, our bus will pick you up at the hotel and check out, then transfer you directly to the 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 80km away from Baotou City to the Desert, it will take us 2 hours.

After we arrive at the desert. and then we will enter the hinterland of the desert 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 2-3 hours for us to have fun in thedesert.

After we finish this program, we will have a simple tourist lunch and then go to Xilamuren Grassland and check in the yurt. Today dinner is Special Mongolia Dinner on thegrassland: Mongolia Palace Feast Meal.  The most grandest meal, not only needs you dress Mongolia Royal Clothes, but also can let you enjoy all kinds of Mongolia sacrifice performances during this meal.

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.

Day3: Xilamuren Grassland Horse Riding-Beijing

Transfer: By High Speed Train, From Xilamuren Grassland to Hohhot City, 128km; 2 hours

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

Option Choice: The Legend of the Southern Desert outdoor show which is 160RMB/Ticket

In the Morning, if you dont want to miss the sunrise from the Xilamuren grassland, you need to get up around 4:30am in order to catch the majestic sunrise over the grassland , and you’ll be able to roam among the blue skies and the tranquil and untouched flowers of the plains.

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. 

After breakfast, 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. 

After we finish horse riding, we can go back to our yurt and take a short rest and wait for Lunch. If time is enough, we can choose to enjoy the The Legend of the Southern Desert outdoor show Genghis khan, it is about 10km away from our yurt. 

This show has 6 stories of Genghis khan: Chilhood、Conscription、Nadam Fair、Revolt、Warfare、Unification. You can have a full understanding about Mongolian history, culture, grassland, customs and especially the founder and Genghis khan of Mongol Empire from this show.（Ticket fee is on your own expense, normal price is 280RMB, CET price is 160RMB）

After lunch we will go to Hohhot City, then your vacation is about to end, and get prepared for being escorted to catch your flight/train to next destination.

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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