Inner Mongolia – Grasslands, Yurts and More!

After breakfast, head to the heartland of Hulunbuir Grassland. On the route, you are immersed in the blue sky and white clouds though the grassland. 

Arriving at Golden Horde Mongolian Tribe that is the only nomadic tribe open to the tourists, a reproduction of the camping tents in Genghis Khan’s time.  

You will participate in the sacrificing of Aobao, the most common and grand sacrificial activity of the Mongolians. Self-served mutton will be served for your Mongloian type of lunch. 

After lunch, take a walk along the striking Moergele River that boasts the most beautiful river bends in China. Horseback riding is optional at own fee.

On the route, you will pass by the pretty and romantic corridor of birch forests, igniting the torches in your memory of the past happy life. 

Dinner will be arranged in a Russian descendant family.

After breakfast, visit a Mukeleng House of over 100 years old. 

Then move on to the Sino-Russian boder river to appreciate the beauty of Ergun River and have a distant view of the opposite Russian town. 

After lunch, head to Moerdaoga National Forest Park. The Moerdaoga National Forest Park is the first national forest park in the Greater Khingan Range within Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is the biggest national forest park of its kind in China. “Moerdaoga” literally means that “set out for flight riding your horses” that was legendarily said by Genghis Khan who tried to integrate the tribes. 

The forest park is adjacent to the Hulunbuir Grassland on the south, the Erguna River on the north, packed with old and tall trees and numerous streams and rivers. 

After sightseeing at the forest park, move on to Moerdaoga Town.

After breakfast, drive to Aoluguya Ewenki Ethnic Township. 

On the route, enjoy the scenery of the primeval forest of the Greater Khingan Range. Aoluguya Ewenki Ethnic Town is inhabited by the Ewenki people, the only hunting tribe in China which keeps its reindeer. They came from Siberia over three hundred years ago and have been living in the dense primeval forest and surviving on herding reindeer. 

Visit the residentail houses by the hunting tribe. 

After lunch, visit the Aoluguya Ewenki Ethnic Reindeer Museum and primary tribes and handicrafts workshops. 

Then drive all the way to the hometown of Genghis Khan – Ergun City, the hometown of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), who here united all the tribes and started to conquer most of Asia and Eastern Europe.

After breakfast, head to Ergun Wetland. Erguna Wetland has an area of 200,000 hectare, the largest wetland in Asia, about 3km to the west of Ergun City. Erguna Wetland is scattered around the forest and the grassland with many types including marshes, shrub swamps, swamp forest, open bogs and moss.

Lunch will be arranged at Shangkuli farmland. 

Full afternoon will be arranged at Shangkuli farmland, which is a traditional Chinese farm. We can see a large area of wheat fields and rape flowers, as well as our own cattle and sheep and other small animals. Here we can eat brown wheat from black land, make our own tofu, fry chili peppers and steam steamed bread. Every dish we eat comes from this farm.

After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to the airport