Inner Mongolia (II)

Inner Mongolia (I)

Mongolian yurts we stayed in.

Really glad that this trip happened despite all the last minute ticket booking, people backing out at the last minute, schedule misfit, and lack of time because there were just too much going on at the same time - having to pack up the entire house, shift endless boxes of belongings and furnitures over to store at a friend's place, and graduation procedures to be settled by the seniors. We only managed to clear the whole house an hour before rushing to the airport, so it was really tiring.

Even though we had a terrible tour guide, spent too much time in the car travelling between destinations, and got a full body ache (butt especially) after horse riding, it was still a wonderful trip together before we part our ways...





The grasslands were magnificent. According to the locals they are less green and well-grown this year due to the lack of rain, but we girls from the city were already very very contented to see sceneries like these! The horse riding journey seemed endless, but it felt so free to be able to feast on such a huge piece of land and sky. We all got a few shades darker within hours, but I honestly didn't mind at all.



In 24 hours, we chased the sunset, fell asleep under the clearest and nearest milky way I've ever witnessed in my life, and woke up early to catch the sunrise. Temperature difference is really big on the grasslands and it almost felt like early winter at night. We wrapped ourselves up in blankets from our rooms (which obviously weren't supposed to be brought outside oops) and lay down under the magnificent milky way. I don't know much about constellations, but it was such a bliss to drift off to sleep under a wide night sky filled with stars that blinked like glitter.

At dusk.