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Inner Mongolia Travel Tips

Proper time to tour Inner Mongolia:
Inner Mongolia belongs to temperate continental and monsoon climate. The best time to visit Inner Mogolia is summer from June to September. The other five monthes from December to April are long and cold, not suitable for travelling. Accompanied with blizzards, the temperature often dips below the freezing point at night. So the weather in summer (from June to August) is more comfortable, the change of the temperature between days and nights can be great too. In the evening you are often advised to put on warm clothing when you travel on the grasslands even in summer time.

Food in Inner Mongolia
You may have difficulty with the local food, which is focused on diary products, Lamp and cattle. Favorite dishes include Roast Lamb, Butter, Shaomai, Instant-Boiled Mutton, Cheese, Naked Oat Flour, Cooked Mutton, Sour Milk, Buckwheat Flour, Finger Mutton Milk Tea. Mongolian milk tea is distinctive to this region and frequently served in hotels along with breakfast.

What to wear and take during the tourist season
Casual clothing and comfortable walking shoes are the must for your trip to Inner Mongolia. Make sure to take warm clothing as it is quite chilly and cold during the nights and early morning. You are advised to take sun hat, sunglasses, water bottle, snacks on your trip, your personal medical kit, sun screen lotion, toilet paper, camera and all possible personal things such as necessary medicine, cosmetics etc. Very often you cannot find them during your trip to Inner Mongolia.

Travel Taboo
1. Taking care of livestock
When traveling by car or on foot in the grasslands or visiting a herdman'family, try to advoid directly encountering and frightening the animals. Frightened livestock will be anxious to run off and lose weight. Passing through the herd either by car or on foot is considered to be impolite to the host.
2. Home visit
If you visit the herdsmen's homes by car, please notice whether the horses are tied to the Le Le carts by the yurts. If frightened, the horses will tear apart the reins and run away. Entering the yurt or house, please don't sit on the east side where your host sleeping area is located. You should sit in the west or north. But if you sit in the north, please don't block the hanging image or the picture of the Buddha in the north area. Just sit on the ground, you don't have to take off your shoes. Do not sit on the threshold.
3. Tea Ceremony
In the herdsmen's homes or at tourist spots, the host or the waitress will offer you a bowl of milk tea first. You get up to take the bowl with the right hand or two hands. Taking the bowl with the left hand is considered impolite. Then you should take liquor and then use the ring finger dip and point in the direction of heaven, earth, and fire stove showing the worship to Heaven, Earth, Vulcan. You are not forced to drink if you are able to drink. Just use your lips to touch the liquor indicating you have accepted pure friendship of the host.
4. Never bury garbage in sand as it is constantly shifted by wind. Take it away with you.

Travel reminders
1.Inner Mongolia is a landlocked region with relatively dry climate, so get ready for some lipstick and skin care cream, and drink more daily water.
2. Inner Mongolia is about 1,500 meters above sea level with strong direct sunlight from June to September, take sunscreen and sunglasses.
3. There are many Inner Mongolia customs and taboos, please listen to your tour guide or your escort.
4. Due to the big temperature difference between day and night as well the changeable grassland weather, please bring your own long-sleeved clothing.
5. In Inner Mongolia, the main tourist attractions is the desert and grasslands, it is appropriate to wear a T-shirt tourists, trousers, shoes.
6. Inner Mongolia food belongs to the north cuisine with heavier taste, the restaurants will try their best to make the local food adaptable to you.
7. Please bring your own drugs for diarrhea, fever, skin allergy drugs just for emergency.
8. If you bring children with you on the driving tour, take plenty of drinking water and medicine in case they get carsick. The temperature varies greatly between day and night, so bring warm clothing.

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