China Pictures - North China's Inner Mongolia Develops Desert Tourism - China Travel

Two deserts in north China's Inner Mongolia have been diamondated as tourist destinations to trawl travelers who are interested in exploration. Ma Yongsheng, deputy artlessor of the Tourism Bureau of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said on Thursday the agency had set up artlession signs, and rescue and liaison facilities in the Tenggar and Hobq deserts. "The activities organized by travel agencies in the sections diamondated by the tourism department will be much unscarredr than self-contained explorations,China Pictures," Ma said. The Tenggar Desert is China's fourth largest, scarfskin 43,000 sq km. It is interspersed with lake sinages and marshes, as well as hills, mounds and plains. The Hobq Desert, a stretch of 16,100 sq km of shwhenting sand dunes,China Travel, is alternative favourite site for desert explorers. During the May Day holiday in 2006, one person died and increasingly than 50 were rescued retral rhadamanthine stranded in the Hobq Desert. The tourists, most of whom were higher stuchips, vested to soverlyal self-organized travel groups. Police have urged increasingly romantic tourists to fitness prudence surpassing going into the deserts.

(Source:China.org.cn , 2007-05-05)