About the tour to Khara Koto & Badain Jaran Desert

Posted on October 27, 2009 by karen

Yesterday, i received a call from a guest in Yinchuan. A spanish woman wanted  to visit Khara Koto and also Ejinaqi in inner Mongolia. In fact, it’s a good idea but the time is very tight to get the special permits.

Nowadays,foreigners are not allowed  travel freely in China. Some  places have restirctions which make the foreigners have to find a suitable travel agency to hep them arrange the special permits in advance.

Foreigners travel to Ejinaqi will be required to apply the permits. And the permits need a in-country agency to apply from the government. That means, the foreigners can’t visit the speical places on their own. They have to use the Chinese to go with them. And this kind of permit will take some days to work it out. So i had to say sorry to the guest who gave me a call yesterday, because she wanted to go that places one day later. Time is very tight and we can’t make that joueney for her.  It’s very easy to travel in China in big cities, but if you will go to somewhere special in China, please contatc a chinese local agency before you plan this journeny.

Let’s back to Khara Khoto. This place is also strange to most of Chinese. Maybe most of them have no idea about this city. And because the Ghoul Novel is very popular in 2008, there is a book called “Gui Chui Deng”《鬼吹灯》

I have found an article in the National Geographic to talk about the Alashan Plateau & Khara Khoto. But that article was written in 2002. For me, i went to Alashan plateau andBadain Jaran Desert in 2007 to report that area for a french magazine.

Recently, we have a french group go trekking in that place. The guide will bring back my favorate stone in that desert ” La rose de la desert ” Desert Crystal which made of sand and water.

If you are interest in this kind of places, you can write email to me and i can help to give you some suggestions.

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