Xilinguole National Nature Reserve lies in the boundaries of Xilinguole City, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Covering a total area of 10,786 square kilometers, Xilinguole National Nature Reserve was established in 1985, the first grassland nature reserve in China, and joined the International Man and Biosphere Reserve Network in 1987. As a matter of fact, with its typicality, Xilinguole Grassland attracted great attention from botanists at home and abroad as early as 1930s.

 

 

Please note that CCC offers two separate Inner Mongolia grassland tours. Both of them are good but offer different features depending on what your objective is and what you expect from the tour. In order for you to choose the tour best meeting your needs, we provide some comments here for your reference.

Suggested itinerary

Day 1 Fly into Xilinhot
Beijing airport - Xilinhot: 07:15 - 08:15
No direct flight from Shanghai. So Shanghai travellers have to travel to Beijing and then to Xilinhot.

Drive to view awesome scenery of the grasslands, and settle down in yurts of a local herdsman family. Have Mongolian lunch - milk tea, horse milk alchohol, finger lambs, and wild vegetables. Then enjoy peace and serene grassland, learn daily life and activities of the hurdlers. Ride horses, visit the rock piles or search odd stones in the gully.

Appreciate sunset and then count stars.

Day 2 Xilinhot / Grasslands
In the morning, follow the herdsmen to milk a cow and shear a sheep （only available in June), and then learn to herd horses. Visit pastures nearby and see how people farm the horses for military uses. Return to Xilinhot in the late afternoon. Stay in a 4-star hotel in Xinlinhot.

Day 3 Grasslands / XIlinhot / Fly Out
Transfer to the airport to fly out.
Xilinhot - Beijing by air: 09:15 - 10:15.