Inner Mongolia travel guide

Inner Mongolia meets all my imaginations about exploration and freedom. It has grasslands, deserts, oases, wetlands, camels, people on horseback, and national borders...< /p>

Before I went there, I always felt that traveling to Inner Mongolia was a huge undertaking. It was enough to just think about the selection of destinations, the formulation of strategies, and the booking of hotel accommodations.

After going there, I found that these are not problems. You can completely solve these problems by finding a free travel companion, which is very popular nowadays, allowing you to comfortably enjoy the unpredictable natural scenery, culture and food of different regions along the way. .

Choose the way to play

As you can see from the map, Inner Mongolia is a very large area. Self-driving and pure independent travel are very expensive, not to mention tiring, and there are safety risks (on the grassland Navigation and mobile phone signals are not available in some places). It is really tiring to plan a trip, book a hotel, use a car, etc. on your own, and it may not be timely. If you want to travel to Inner Mongolia in a relaxed and economical way, it is recommended to travel independently in a group.

Personally, I feel that this is the only way to be worthy of the vast grasslands, exotic and colorful cities, leisurely cattle and sheep, and enthusiastic singing and dancing...?

Travel time Choice

The area of ??Inner Mongolia is very large. It is unrealistic to visit all the attractions at once. You can only visit them one at a time. As far as grassland is concerned, generally May to September is better when the grass has grown.

If you want to go to the desert, you can go in April or May. To see Populus euphratica forest, you have to go from the end of September to the beginning of November. Of course, if the vacation time is fixed, you don’t have to think so much. You will always have a different experience when you go.

Itinerary + Attractions Introduction

Let me tell you about the itinerary of Hulunbuir and Xilamuren + Xiangshawan respectively, to give you a reference

Hulunbuir Prairie 6-day tour route: Day 1: Airport pick-up at Hailar. Day 2: Ergun Wetland – Shiwesumu – Oloch Manor. Day 3: Mengbu Yida Folk Custom Experience – Birch Forest – Black Mountain Head – Bonfire Party. Day 4: 186 Ribbon River - Hulun Lake - Manzhouli Day 5: Mongolian tribes in the hinterland of Hulunbuir grassland - Genghis Khan Square - Hulunbuir Museum Day 6: Send back home

Itinerary + attraction introduction

Xilamuren + Xiangshawan five-day tour route:

D1: to Hohhot

D2: Xilamuren Grassland - Bonfire Party

D3: Mongolian Tribal Film and Television Base—Hasuhai—Wanjiahui Water World

D4: Xiangshawan—Rongwang Museum

D5: Inner Mongolia Museum—Return

Food Recommendations

Although both are Inner Mongolia, the food eaten in the two itineraries are different. Hulunbuir Prairie is closer to the Northeast, so I eat Mongolian food + Northeastern food; Xirenmu La Grassland mainly serves Mongolian cuisine.

I won’t introduce much about Northeastern cuisine. I will focus on Mongolian specialties and snack specialties: hand-grilled meat + roasted whole lamb + ice-boiled lamb + copper pot shabu-shabu. Recommended way to eat: Pair with hand-grilled meat. Delicious milk tea, fried rice milk food, simply a must-have

Special snacks: Naipizi + air-dried beef Recommended way to eat: Eat Naipizi with pancakes and white sugar, on top of freshly baked dough pancakes. Sprinkle a layer of white sugar, then add a layer of milk skin, roll the pancake and milk skin together and eat it. It is sweet but not greasy, fragrant and crispy, and very delicious. Air-dried beef comes from the war rations of the Inner Mongolia cavalry, which is especially suitable for watching TV dramas