Hulunbuir Grasslands

2008-03-20

The Hulunbuir Grasslands (Hulunbei'er da caoyuan), despite recent tourist infiltration, are still one of the best and lushest in China. The grasslands here are known locally as the "most unsullied prairie" (Zui chunjing de caoyuan), because of the lack of pollution and the uninterrupted green that, in summer, stretches in all directions. Hulunbuir is fed by hundreds of rivers, large and small, that have made this area highly popular with the Mongolian nomads and herders.

Visitors here can try many activities, including horse & camel riding, Mongolian wrestling, dancing with the small Mongolians, and feeding on the mutton courses of a traditional banquet. To finish it all off it is best to spend the night here, in the yurts, that although a little too designed for tourism (on concrete bases and in yurt hotels), will give you a taste of the lifestyles of the nomads and the marauding Mongols of yesteryear. If you can manage to get to the grasslands independantly, then you will bypass much of the tourist pollution!

Hulunbuir Grasslands

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