I decided to wander through Hohhot a bit. First, I took a taxi to the north by pointing in the direction of the mountains. After getting out, it was still a long walk to the mountains, and even I didn’t manage to actually get to the foot of them.
After having been to Datong, I really appreciate this city now, it really is a beautiful city, modern, developed and especially at night when all the lights are on, it’s a great pleasure to walk through the streets.
Hohhot was founded in somewhere in the 16th century by a guy named Altan Khan, and is famous for the surrounding Mongolian grassland, for which many tourists visit the city in the summer.
In summer they organize the annual Naadam festival, with traditional music, wrestling and horse riding.
This last week, temperatures have finally gone down to ”bearable” and I can’t wait until spring really sets in.
Students from all over Inner Mongolia, as well as surrounding provinces and even from the country itself come to Hohhot to study. Only 15 % of the population of Inner Mongolia is actually of Mongolian descent.
Apart from the other big city, Baotou, there is not a whole lot out there. Some smaller towns, which I hope to start visiting when the temperatures go up, and a lot of grassland and desert.
Well, there’s a little information about Inner Mongolia for you, I hope to come back with more news of this city and its surroundings, if the weather lets me.
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