7-day Inner Mongolia Hulunbuir Grassland Ethnic Minority Tour
7-day Inner Mongolia Hulunbuir Grassland Ethnic Minority Tour

7-day Inner Mongolia Hulunbuir Grassland Ethnic Minority Tour to visit Hulunbuir Grassland, Shiwei Russian Town, Aoluguya Ewenki Ethnic Town, Moerdaoga National Forest Park and more popular in its northwest part.

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Day 1Arrival in Hailar

Take flight or train to Hailar - the culture central of Hulunbuir City. Upon arrival at the Hailar Dongshan Airport or train station, your local English speaking tour guide will meet you and escort you to check in the hotel in Hailar. The rest of the day for your leisure around the Hailar District of Hulunbuir.

Day 1Arrival in Hailar
Day 2Hulunbuir Grassland

Meals: Meals: B,L,D

After breakfast, head to the heartland of Hulunbuir Grassland. On the route, you are immersed in the blue sky and white clounds though the grassland in summer day. You will participate in the sacrificing of Aobao, the most common and grand sacrificial activity of the Mongolians. Self-served mutton will be served for your Mongloian type of lunch. After lunch, take a walk along the strking Moergele River that boasts the most beautiful river bends in China. Horseback riding is optional. Stay overnight at Mongolia Yurt.

Day 2Hulunbuir Grassland
Day 3Shiwei Russian Town

Meals: Meals: B,L,D

After breakfast, continue to drive to Shiwei. Located on the east bank of the Erguna River, Shiwei is now a lively border town abutting Russia inhabited mostly by the Chinese-Russian descendants. Shiwei used to be a cradle of multi-ethnic groups including Mongols. It is a beautiful town and listed as one of top ten most beautiful townships in China. The town and its surrounding villages feature the Russian style in terms of architectures and living habits. Stay overnight in a traditional Russian style wooden house is a top choice for many tourists. On the route, you will pass by the pretty and romantic corridor of birch forests, igniting the torches in your memory of the past happy life. Dinner will be arranged in a Russian descendant family and homestay overnight in a Mukeleng house, a kind of Russian traditional house built with logs on stone foundation.

Day 3Shiwei Russian Town
Day 4Moerdaoga National Forest Park

Meals: Meals: B,L,D

After breakfast, visit a Muleleng House of over 100 years old. Then move on to the Sino-Russian boder river to appreciate the beauty of Erguna River and have a distant view of the opposite Russian town. After lunch, head to Moerdaoga National Forest Park. The Moerdaoga National Forest Park is the first national forest park in the Greater Khingan Range within Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is the biggest national forest park of its kind in China. "Moerdaoga" literally means that "set out for flight riding your horses" that was legendarily said by Genghis Khan who tried to integrate the tribes. The forest park is adjacent to the Hulunbuir Grassland on the south, the Erguna River on the north, packed with old and tall trees and numerous streams and rivers. After sightseeing at the forest park, move on to Moerdaoga Town.

Day 4Moerdaoga National Forest Park
Day 5Moerdaoga/Ergun

Meals: Meals: B,L,D

After breakfast, drive to Aoluguya Ewenki Ethnic Township. On the route, enjoy the scenery of the primeval forest of the Greater Khingan Range. Aoluguya Ewenki Ethnic Town is inhabited by theEwenki people, the only hunting tribe in China which keeps its reindeer. They came from Siberia over three hundred years ago and have been living in the dense primeval forest and surviving on herding reindeer. Visit the residentail houses by the hunting tribe. After lunch, visit the Aoluguya Ewenki Ethnic Reindeer Museum and primary tribes and handicrafts workshops. Then drive all the way to the hometown of Genghis Khan - Ergun City. Ergun City is located on the northern part of Hulunbuir Grassland and on the right bank of Erguna River with an area of 28,400 km2. It was the hometown of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), who here united all the tribes and started to conquer most of Asia and Eastern Europe.

Day 5Moerdaoga/Ergun
Day 6Ergun City/Manzhouli

Meals: Meals: B,L,D

After breakfast, head to Erguna Wetland. Erguna Wetland has an area of 200,000 hectare, the largest wetland in Asia, about 3km to the west of Ergun City. Erguna Wetland is scattered around the forest and the grassland with many types including marshes, shrub swamps, swamp forest, open bogs and moss. Erguna Wetland is on the plain delta formed by Erguna River and other three alpine rivers including Genhe River, Deerbugan River and Hawuer River. Lunch will be arranged at Heishantou. Then drive all the way to Manzhouli. Manzhouli City is adjacent to Russia in the north, about 192km to the west of Hailaier. Manzhouli Port is the largest land port along the border in China. Manzhouli is a port city of comprising the folk customs of the three countries including China, Russia and Mongolia, a blend of Chinese and Western cultures. The City is teeming with unique buildings of Russian, Mongolian and Chinese styles. After Chinese-Russian dinner, stay overnight in a hotel at Manzhouli.

Day 6Ergun City/Manzhouli
Day 7Manzhouli/Hailar/Beijing

Meals: Meals: B,L

After breakfast, drive to Taowa Square, a huge matryoshka doll square. The Matryoshka Doll Square is the iconic attraction in Manzhouli that comprises the characteristics and features from the three bordering countries - China, Russia and Mongolia. The main building is a 30m high Russian nested doll with an area of 3,200 square meters, the largest in the world hitting the guinness wordl record. Then head to Hulun Lake. Located in the western of Hulunbeir Prairie, Hulun Lake is the 5th largest fresh water lake in China and the largest lake in the Inner Mongolia, covering approximately 2,339 km2. Hulun Lake is teeming with cash fish such as carp, crucian carp and also rare white shrimp. The lake is a mecca for 241 bird species, including crane, gull, swan, one of the few treasure houses of birds in the world. Hulun Lake is an ideal summer resort due to cool climate, beautiful scenery and fresh air in summer. You will enjoy an all-fish feast for your lunch. After lunch, appreciate the massive grassland lake. Boating on the lake is optional. At the end of the travel service, you are transferred to Hailar Dongshan Airport for departure.

Day 7Manzhouli/Hailar/Beijing
Price Includes

Transportation & Private Transfers:

Transportation cost covers all the domestic airfare of economy class with airport tax, train tickets between the cities as the itinerary specified.

 

Transfer between airports, railway station, hotels and scenic spots for sightseeing around the cities that are specified by the itinerary with private air conditioned vehicle with driver and English-speaking guide. Separate arrivals and departures will incur extra charges.

 

Entrance Fees:

All entrance fees to the scenic spots listed in the itinerary. The final arrangement will be determined by private tour guides depends on the real-time local circumstances wheather are beyond the control of Access China Travel. We will adhere to the original itinerary as accurately as possible. 

 

Normal Meals:

All normal meals as the itinerary specified: B = breakfast, L = Lunch, D = dinner in local  restaurant. Breakfasts are served in hotel, breakfasts have Chinese or Western style for your option; Lunches are served in carefully selected quality local Chinese restaurants with best service, your lunches will be ordered by your guide catering to your preferences within normal standard. Dinners as the itinerary specified will be also served in local Chinese restaurants. The meal quotation is normalized. If you have any special request about meals, like vegetarian, famous rare dishes, Indian food or more, please inform us in advance. For the unspecified dinners, you will have dinner on your own. Feel free to ask your local guide for suggestions or recommendation.

 

Private Sightseeing Escort:

Normal sightseeing activities as the itinerary listed will be escorted with English-speaking guide. The English-speaking guide and driver in each city are with you throughout the entire itinerary around that city. They do not fly with you from one city to another.

 

Hotel Accommodation:

Hotel service criterion: two adults share on one standard twin/double-bed room; solo traveler who want to occupy one twin/double-bed room assigned is required for extra single supplement rate. A single room is available on prior request at an additional cost; if a recommended hotel unavailable, it will be replaced by one of the same class. All hotels as the itinerary listed serve daily western or Chinese breakfast. All rooms are air-conditioned with private facilities unless specified.

 

Tour Arrangements:

The tour cost includes the planning, handling, booking, operation and communication charges.

 

Service Charge & Government Taxes

 


Price Excludes

International airfare or train tickets for entry or exit China, unless that is noted or required otherwise.
Visa Fees, passport application or renewal fee.
Excess Baggage Charges.

 

Personal Expenses:

Expenses of a purely personal nature such as excess luggage fees, laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities (shows) and meals, beverages...

 

Meals:

Any meal are not specified in the itinerary with "B", "L" or "D".

 

Any extra cost caused by the changes of natural disasters, fires, weather, government and local authority orders, politics, strikes, war, riots, quarantine, custom regulations; as well as tourist law violation, accident damages or injury incurred out of Access China Travel control.

 

Gratuities:

Tips to guides, escort, drivers bellman, etc.

 


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