Hohhot Inner Mongolia City and Nightlife

Hohhot (呼和浩特) is a capital city of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, situated in Northern China. Hohhot is the city of Mongolian, as Mongolian ruler Altan Khan found it.

Visiting Inner Mongolian means visit a natural beauty of Mongolian grasslands that lie within a hundred-kilometer radius of the city. These are Xilamuren (80km north of Hohhot), Gegentala (150km north) and Huitengxile (120km west).

Besides the natural beauty of grasslands, Hohhot also offering a Chinese and Mongolian culture and sightseeing including old temple, and great mosque.

Hohhot travel attractions :

1. Five Pagoda Temple

The Five Pagoda Temple (Wuta si), located in the southern section of town, is a miniature temple built in Indian style, so named for the five four-sided pagodas that jut up from the rectangular base of the building. This is a pretty temple that is worth taking time out to visit, especially if you are in the vicinity of this older section of town.

2. Great Mosque

The Great Mosque (Qingzhen dasi), located in the older southwestern part of Hohhot, was built during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD) after throngs of the Hui Muslim Minority migrated from Xinjiang to Mongolia.

3. Inner Mongolia Museum

The Inner Mongolian Museum (Neimenggu bowuguan) is the largest and best museum in Inner Mongolia, boasting a good selection of ethnic Mongolian items, and a historical lineage of this vast grassland province. Although not arranged in the most logical of order, the museum contains a variety of interesting exhibitions that should keep you interested. The captions in the museum are unfortunately only in Chinese and Mongolian, but most of the pieces pretty much speak for themselves.

4. Xilituzhao Temple

Xilituzhao Temple (Xilituzhao si, or Xiaozhao si), containing the residence of the 11th Grand Living Buddha, is the largest temple in town. Originally a small Buddhist construction, it took the temple hundreds of years to expand to its current size.

5. Tomb of Wang Zhao Jun

The story of the concubine Wang Zhaojun, one of China's four historical beauties (along with Diao Chan, Xi Shi and Concubine Yang) is a Chinese morality tale of political alliance and sacrifice, a tale that, like much of Chinese past, has been obfuscated over time into numerous versions.

6. Dazhao Temple

Located in the old quarter of Hohhot to the southwest of the train station, Dazhao Temple (Dazhao si) is the largest Gelukpa (Yellow Hat Sect) temple in town.

7. Inner Mongolia Grassland

Lying about ninety kilometers (about 56 miles) north of Hohhot, Xilamuren Grassland is the first grassland tourist attraction opened in Hohhot. Xilamuren, which means 'yellow water' in Mongolian, is also known as Taihe after Puhui Temple, a Lama temple built in 1769 in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

Hohhot Nightlife

Night life in Hohhot is very colorful. You can enjoy Mongolian singing and dancing shows, take part in a bonfire party on the vast grassland, or join in the crowd in pubs and bars. Most of the bars or pubs in Hohhot are located in the major hotels.

Hang Blue Food Entertainment Ltd. is the biggest bar in Hohhot, providing wine, beer, fruit juice, and western food. It often invites singers and actors to perform for the customers. Hualian Cinema is a big one in Hohhot with the latest show equipments to show the latest movies.

In Hohhot, there are decent entertainment places and some great bars. The Mongolian people are fond of singing and dancing late into the night and so there are a many places that are open late and provide variety of dishes. Some venues feature nightly Mongolian shows and others cater towards Western tastes. There is a brand-new bar street completed in late summer 2007, which even has a strip bar in European-style. The bar street runs from Zhandong Lu in the west to Xinchun Lu in the east.


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Hohhot City


Hohhot Nightlife


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