After breakfast we got into the van with the two chinese men, the couple and the chinese lady from Beijing. We were literally a packed van. No room to move or breath. We drove 5 hours to the desert. The car ride was pretty miserable.
The desert was absolutely gorgeous. It was totally worth the long, miserable drive! First we had lunch, which really meant we were going to eat the white rice and then eat peanut butter. Honestly, I think I would have died by now if I didn't have peanut butter. Definitely never eating peanut butter when I get back!
After lunch we put these boot things on, purchased colorful masks and headed out to explore the desert. We first road in a jeep wrangler all around the desert to get to where the camels were. Then we road camels for 40 minutes. It was the fastest 40 minutes of my life.
We left the desert around 2pm and made our way back to the train station. But first we stopped at this factory. The lady who walked us around did not say a word. It was the strangest thing ever. It was also the most random factory... the top floor was paintings and the first floor was where they packaged all this dried food.
After the thirty minute stop at the random factory our tour guide dropped us off at the train station. We got dropped off around 5 and had until 10 till our train left. Talk about a long wait...
So we went to dicos (it is sort of like McDonalds). When we walked in everyone stopped eating and looked at us.
The four of us sat in dicos for 4 hours until we got kicked out. We were so delirious and tired. Then we walked to the train station and sat there for another hour and became even more delirious and tired.
Inner Mongolia was absolutely amazing. This trip definitely made every tear I ever shed before coming to Beijing totally worth it.
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