For our Interim this year, around 20 students and I went to Inner Mongolia. We got to see a variety of things from deserts and grasslands to ostriches and lamaseries. We started off our trip by having Mongolian Hot Pot which was absolutely delicious. We then got to visit a local art school and see some student sing and dance. We then went to a lamasery (a Buddhist monastery) which was pretty cool. We also got to go to the grasslands and fly kites and make dumplings in a yurt. On one night, we woke up at 1 AM to see the stars. They were amazing. Later in the trip we got to go sand sliding in the desert. The views we saw were priceless. We also got to plant trees and visit a school to help Chinese kids learn English.
Mongolian Hotpot ^ We put noodles, lamb, bacon, ramen, chicken heart, and a few vegetables into a boiling pot of broth, and then ate it.
The Streets of Hohhot ^
Here is a kid eating yogurt at a lamasery.
We got to see some Mongolian horse racers race around a dirt track. ^
A cow randomly wandered through our Mongolian yurt motel.
Meat Sticks! ^
We watched the waiter shred a cooked lamb to pieces and then serve it to us. ^
A Lamasery ^
I caught this lizard in the grasslands.
The Grasslands ^
We made dumplings with a local herdsman's family. ^
Real yurts on the grasslands.
Teaching English in a Chinese Classroom ^
The locals line up sticks to stop the desert sands from shifting, allowing more plants to grow.
The Desert ^
Here's the hill where we went sandsliding. ^
Some of the camels we used for our ride through the desert.
Entrance to a lamasery Baotou.
Local herdsman's house.
