Hohhot

Done with the Tropical lunch we drove 2 hours to Hohhot, the capital of Autonomous Inner Mongolia. Population: 2.6 millions so by Chinese standard this is a town, not a city. And you can really see the difference. It does look like a provincial town, clearly less developed or organized, and dirty. We were supposed to visit the Inner Mongolia Museum with 44000 objects relating to ethnic history… what a disappointment. This must have been one of the worse museums I’ve ever been to. In 45min we were done (the building was big and we checked each room, just in case the next one would be better). Again if you were to go to Mongolia, skip the museum (even if the entrance is for free) and spend more time hiking the grassland.
An example of the board introducing each room in the museum (read it)

For dinner we went to a typical restaurant to discover some more Mongolian specialties. This time it was some sort of noodles (see picture) that you eat together with a soup. Very good. The other dishes were pretty similar to what we had the day before.