5 Days Genghis Khan & Beautiful Grassland Tour

Arriving in Hohhot early allows you to maximize your Hohhot discovery time. Your day starts with Five-Pagoda Temple, which got its name for the five stupas on a foundation tower. The exquisite stone inscriptions and sculptures will speak to Lamaism culture. Inner Mongolia Museum follows. It is a great place for you to discover Mongol national identity with tens of thousands of historical relics. After lunch at a local fine restaurant you’ll visit the Dazhao Temple. It was built in 1579 and is the Tibetan Buddhist center of Inner Mongolia. The silver Buddha, the inscriptions of dragons, and the murals are three highlights of the temple. Nearby is the Zhaojun Tomb, which is a place to learn about the history of intermarriage in the Han Dynasty that brought peace to two states.

• Hotels: Holiday Inn Hohhot, Sheraton Hohhot Hotel

Yurts on boundless grassland

Today you will ride for about 2.5 hours to Huiteng Xile Grassland. It is a vast grassland combining the gentle elegance of clean water and green hills and the beauty of brutalism only found in Inner Mongolia. Riding a horse to embrace this area will allow you to see the horizon where the grassland and sky meet. After, lunch is arranged at a local yurt. Later in the afternoon, you’ll go back to the city and visit Islam Street. It is a street in the Muslim quarter where 70% of Hohhot’s Hui people live. You can experience Muslim culture and taste the halal food.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch,

Zhaojun Tomb

We will ride to Ordos, which will take about 3.5 hours to get to. En route you will bypass Sounding Sand Bay in the desert. There, you’ll find a sand bay of 500 meters long sitting on the west and east, the dune is as high as 110 meters with a slope of 40 degrees. The sands roar if one slides down from the top of the dune, giving it the name of Sounding Sand. You can ride a horse or slide on the sand to experience it up close.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch,
• Hotels: Crowne Plaza Ordos, Ordos Tieniu Phoenix Hotel

Hulunbuir Grassland

After breakfast you’ll hear the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan. The Mausoleum houses the accessories and dresses but no bodies as Mongolians have “secret burials”. Inside the Mausoleum, there are huge murals displaying scenes of Genghis Khan’s e.g. birth, death, fights and union of Mongolia etc. The Historical and Cultural Museum inside the is also the only one in the world to collect, display and study Mongolian history and culture. After lunch, you will go westwards to Baotao and visit Wudangzhao Lamasery, a Tibetan Buddhism Palace. Its construction scale is larger than others because it holds political importance and has the greatest influence in all of Mongolia.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch,
• Hotels: Shangri-La Hotel Baotou

Camel riding in Ordos

With the knowledge you’ve gained on Genghis Khan you can wave goodbye . Your guide and driver will escort you to the airport for your next destination.

• Meals: Breakfast,

Mausoleum of Genghis Khan