[2025 Zhenglan Banner Attraction] Travel Guide for Shangdu Lake (Updated Jul)

🥳 Recently, the "Sing in Inner Mongolia, Happy Ice and Snow Season" Hunshandake Desert Self-Driving Adventure Grand Tour and Ice and Snow Adventure Event was grandly opened in Zhenglan Banner, Xilingol League! At the opening ceremony, the Zhenglan Banner Ulan Muqir, Naire Band, parade phalanx, and off-road team brought wonderful songs, dances, and cultural performances to kick off the event! · 🎊 The event lasted for 3 days and included the Hunshandake Ladder Pit Challenge, NCC Manufacturer Tug-of-War Challenge, Hunshandake Ice Dragon Boat Competition, Hunshandake Ladder T2 Rally, and Hunshandake Ladder King of the Track Competition, attracting more than 3,000 racing and self-driving vehicles and more than 10,000 tourists from all over the country! · 🎉 During the event, a variety of activities were held, including the Hunshandake Desert Beef Food Festival, the Camel Endurance Race around Shangdu Lake, and the Camel Beauty Contest. There were also delicious dishes such as hot pot stewed bones, grassland meat skewers, copper pot feasts, and roasted whole lamb. In addition, the "Zhenglan Banner 2025 Cheese New Product Promotion Conference" was held simultaneously, bringing tourists a joyful tourism experience that combines ice and snow, culture, sports, and food! · 🏂️ The event also set up the "Hunshandake Ice and Snow Fun Zone" for tourists. While the vehicles galloped in the snow, tourists played in the snow, wore colorful ethnic costumes, sang and danced with the welcoming hada team, experienced the fun of ice and snow, and felt the ethnic customs! ⬇️ ❄️ In the winter of 2025, ❄️ Xilingol's winter ice and snow sports activities will follow one after another, ❄️ Take this event information guide and set off! ✅ The 3rd Xilingol League Ice Dragon Boat Race Date: January 11-16 Location: Xilin Lake, Xilinhot City ✅ National Ice Dragon Boat Super League Finals Date: January 18-19 Location: Xilin Lake, Xilinhot City ✅ Xilingol International Ice Dragon Boat Championship Date: January 20-21 Location: Xilin Lake, Xilinhot City ✅ Xilin Lake Ice and Snow Carnival Date: Now until February 28 Location: Xilin Lake - 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Xilinhot City is the central city of Xilingol League and has Xilinhot Airport. It is an ideal holiday destination and tourism transit station for Xilingol League's grassland and ice and snow tours. Currently, the "Sing in Inner Mongolia, Enjoy Xilinhot" Xilin Lake Ice and Snow Carnival has grandly opened, where tourists can enjoy large ice and snow sculptures, ice and snow intangible cultural heritage shows, ice activities, grassland food, and more! - 🔥 Xilingol League's ice and snow tourism is heating up. During the Spring Festival, various banners, counties, and cities (districts) will have a variety of New Year activities, including ice and snow sports, cultural exhibitions, cultural performances, folk experiences, food tastings, reading and sharing activities, and more! In 2025, we look forward to meeting you and talking about the ice and snow romance! Image source: Vast Grassland Xilingol Culture and Tourism

Where to go in winter? Xilingol League, of course! ❗️ 🥳 Xilingol League's winter tourism activities themed "Ice and Snow Xilingol, Passionate Hunshandake" will run through this winter and next spring! Winter Naadam, Mongolian Horse League, Ice and Snow Carnival, Ice and Snow Crossing, Ice Dragon Boat Race, and other ice and snow events and activities will follow one after another, making the snow hot! 👏 Xilingol League is waiting for tourists from all over the country to come to a series of ice and snow appointments and meet the ice and snow! Next, let's take a look at the exciting activities that you can't miss! ☃️ Part ① Six major ice and snow events ✅ Xilingol Winter Mongolian Horse League ⏰️ Event time: Mid-November 2024 to mid-January 2025 Event location: The events will be held in 13 banners, counties, and cities, with the finals held in Xilinhot City. 🏇 The events include endurance races, relay races, archery races, trotting races, horse taming races, and horse racing to pick up hada races. Tourists can enjoy the spectacular scene of "thousands of horses galloping" with riders waving their whips, horses galloping, and horseshoes kicking up flying snow! - ✅ Hunshandake Sandy Land Self-driving Crossing Grand Loop Thousand Cars and Ten Thousand People Ice and Snow Crossing ⏰️ Opening time: January 1, 2025 Opening location: Xilinhot City 🚙 The events include NCC T2 Ice and Snow Rally, NCC T2 Ice and Snow Rally, and Xilingol Horseback Snowfield Photography Festival. The events will be held at the foot of the grassland volcano, on the frozen lake, and on the vast snowfield. Tourists can enjoy a cultural tourism feast of "ice and snow + horse racing, ice and snow + food, ice and snow + cars, ice and snow + ethnic costumes"! - ✅ Hunshandake Sandy Land Self-driving Crossing Grand Loop "Dragon Head Raising on the Second Day of the Second Lunar Month" Car Rally ⏰️ Event time: March 11, 2025 Event location: Xilinhot/Duolun County/Zhenglan Banner 🚘 The event is divided into three stages: the first stage (Xilinhot Station) is about 60 kilometers, the second stage (Duolun Station) is about 80 kilometers, and the third stage (Zhenglan Banner Station) is about 60 kilometers. This event is open to the public, and self-driving enthusiasts can sign up to participate, crossing the Hunshandake Sandy Land and Xilingol Thousand Miles Grassland Scenic Avenue, driving passionately and enjoying the scenery! - ✅ Xilingol International Ice Dragon Boat Invitational ⏰️ Event time: January 20-22, 2025 Event location: Xilinhot City 🚣 Dragon boat teams from 20 countries will perform speed and passion on the ice! In addition to watching the games, tourists can also skate, play ice hockey, play snow circles, ride ice bicycles, and play ice hockey on the Xilin Lake ice rink, enjoying the ice to the fullest! - ✅ National Ice Dragon Boat League Finals ⏰️ Event time: January 20-22, 2025 Event location: Duolun County 🥇 The top 20 teams in the total points of each sub-station and 12 local teams will participate in the competition to determine the final national champion! In addition to watching the games, tourists can also check in at Duolun Lake, participate in winter fishing activities, and enjoy a fresh whole fish feast! - ✅ Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region University Student Ice Dragon Boat Championship ⏰️ Event time: End of December 2024 Event location: Xilinhot City 🚣‍♀️ The event is divided into 12-person and 5-person teams, with 100-meter and 200-meter straight-line races. At that time, college students from all over the country will gather in Xilinhot to compete fiercely on the ice! This event is held at the same time as the Mongolian Horse League, and tourists can witness a variety of exciting events! ☃️ Part ② Three-level ice and snow tourism activities ✅ Zhenglan Banner Winter Naadam ⏰️ Event time: End of December 2024 Event location: Zhenglan Banner 🥳 Naadam is a grand event on the grassland. At that time, a series of activities such as Zhenglan Banner Hunshandake Electric Music Festival, Winter Storage Beef Festival, Brand Vehicle Shangdu Lake Ice and Snow Test Drive Carnival, Hunshandake Sandy Land Crossing Event, and Ethnic Costume Show will be held! Tourists can immerse themselves in the activities, change clothes for travel photography, taste food, and enjoy the winter scenery! - ✅ "Snow Wolf" Tianbian Grassland Wulagai Second Season Ice and Snow Carnival Series Activities ⏰️ Event time: Early December 2024 Event location: Wulagai Management Area ☃️ The beautiful Tianbian Grassland turns into an endless dreamlike snowfield in winter. During the Ice and Snow Carnival, a series of activities such as the opening ceremony of ice and snow activities, ice dragon boat races, horse racing, "Snow Wolf" photography competition, car rally, New Year's Eve tourism people's Spring Festival Gala or Ulan Muqi performance in the league will be held. Tourists can enjoy the games, watch the performances, and take photos! - ✅ Duolun County Duolun Lake Winter Fishing Series Activities ⏰️ Event time: From December 20, 2024 Event location: Duolun Lake Scenic Area 🎣 Every day from 10:30 to 11:00 in the morning and from 15:00 to 15:30 in the afternoon, winter fishing activities will be held in the Whale Island area of Duolun Lake. Tourists can watch the winter fishing activities, buy freshly caught lake fish on the spot, or go to the restaurants in the scenic area to enjoy a whole fish feast! - 🏂️ There are more winter ice and snow activities in Xilingol League! ❤️ Follow "Vast Grassland Xilingol Planet" for detailed travel guides for winter Naadam, ice and snow crossing, and more. Stay tuned! Image source: Vast Grassland Xilingol Culture and Tourism Xilinhot, Xilingol League

🔥🔥The story and visual effects of the Nezha movie are so exciting, and the soundtrack is the finishing touch. The soundtrack when the Tianyuan Ding slowly sinks is like the sound of ancient beasts, which is so shocking that your scalp numbs! Netizens exclaimed, "The sense of oppression is too strong!" The background music used here is Huima! - 👇👇What is Humming? ✅ Humming is a magical singing art, also known as throat singing. The singer precisely controls the throat, mouth and breathing to produce low continuous sounds (basic sounds) and overtones (melodious melodies) at the same time, creating an auditory effect of "one person with two voices" or even multiple voices. ✅ Humming has been passed down on the grassland for thousands of years, and is known as the "three treasures of grassland music" together with long tune and horse-head fiddle. Khoomei often imitates natural sounds, such as wind, flowing water, bird singing, horse neighing, wolf howling, etc. It shows the nomadic people's awe of nature and has important cultural value. ✅ In 2006, Mongolian Humming Art was listed in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List. In 2009, Mongolian Khoomei was listed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. - 👇👇Where can I experience Humming? Xilin Gol in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is one of the main distribution areas of Humming. Humming is deeply loved by the people of Xilingol League. Humming actors are usually invited to perform Humming art on the spot during major festivals. The Jinlianchuan Grassland located in Zhenglan Banner of Ximeng League is one of the core inheritance sites of Huimai art. On the grassland is the world cultural heritage - Yuanshangdu Ruins. The site was once the site of Shangdu during the Yuan Dynasty. It brings together Mongolian culture and art, and has a profound impact on the preservation and dissemination of Humming. 📌*Please consult the scenic spot for details of the performance* - 📌Zhenglanqi Travel Tips 😋 Food 🥛Dairy products: Zhenglan Banner is the hometown of Chagan Yide culture in China and the Chagan Yide cultural heritage base. "Chaganyid" means dairy products. Zhenglanqi’s dairy products are famous for their “milk tofu”, and have the reputation of “Lanqi dairy products are the best in the world”. You must try it! It is recommended to go to ✔️Zhenglanqi Cheese Parlor (Zhenglanqi Visitor Center) for tasting, where you can find authentic Zhenglanqi cheese and Hunshandake Sandy Beef series of specialties! 🐑Xilingol Lamb: Xilingol Lamb is a national geographical indication product, among which Ujumchin Lamb and Sunite Lamb are renowned. They live on grasslands with abundant grass, sufficient water sources and fresh air. The meat is of excellent quality, tender and juicy, with a smooth taste and almost no smell! Recommended to go to ✔️Zhenglan Banner Shangdu Town Yuanzhongyuan Shabu House for tasting! 📸Recommended attractions Yuan Shangdu Ruins, Xilingol Cultural Heritage Museum, Shangdu Lake, Jinlianchuan Grassland, etc. - 🍃When the grass is lush and the golden lotus is in full bloom, we welcome tourists to come to Ximeng to watch Mongolian dances on the prairie, listen to the art of Humming and the playing of the horse-head fiddle, appreciate traditional ethnic costumes, and taste prairie delicacies! Jinlianchuan

If you want to go to the lake on the prairie, go to Shangdu Lake! Once the summer grassland season is over, the lakeside is the perfect place to enjoy the sunset all to yourself. Shangdu Lake in Xilin Gol, Inner Mongolia, has a few scattered yurts, yellowing treetops, wild ducks skimming across the water, colorful clouds with gold edges, and is quiet and undisturbed. It is the perfect place to enjoy the tranquility of autumn. 👍Most recommended: Shangdu Lake consists of three lakes. The largest Shangdu Lake can be driven around the lake by yourself. There are small paths along the lakeside that can lead to the water. There is only one original ecological tourism ranch hotel with good facilities and environment. 👍Most recommended: Continue south to Lake No. 2, the best place to watch the sunset. There are yurts by the lake and you can camp for free in the parking lot. There is almost no light pollution at night. After watching the sunset, you can watch the Milky Way. If the weather is good, you can see the entire Milky Way and there will be shooting stars. 👍Most recommended: Lake No. 3 is the smallest lake, and there are also yurt B&Bs, which are suitable for watching the sunrise. The three lakes are on both sides of a road and are easy to see. 📝Note tips: If you are camping, you need to bring your own food, as there are no restaurants nearby. The grassland is relatively cold at night, with a large temperature difference and it will be windy, so please keep warm. The toilets are closed in the off-season, but the hotel has one. If you are not staying at the hotel, you need to pay a 20 yuan ticket to enter.

Self-driving is one of the favorite ways to travel. The biggest meaning of travel is on the road, and self-driving just confirms this feature on the road. Like free and easy, like challenges, like the infinitely extended road, prefer to be free and free, free to follow. Inner Mongolia has a vast land area of 1.183 million square meters, covering an area of 12.3 percent, and the area of Ximeng has reached more than 200,000 square kilometers, which also causes the distance between each attraction to be several hours. The driving distance, but the scenery along the way is not beautiful, there is no trace of boring, the pleasure of self-driving is vividly displayed here, and it has become the most beautiful enjoyment of this trip on the road. The heart is far away and keeps walking. The most beautiful scenery is always on the road, starting from the Yuan and Jianguo Hotel in Xilinhot, the destination of Kublai Khan Cinema. The car walked along the S27 Zhangxi Expressway, met the strange Pingdingshan, met the spectacular windmill power generation grassland, and met the beautiful Shangdu Lake.

An unexpected embarrassment, in the middle of the journey to Kublai Than Film and Television, after the Shangdu Lake, it is located in the original ecological tourism pasture of Shangdu Lake, Zhenglan Banner, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia. A golden flower on the lakeside is dazzling in the sun. The lake is bright and bright, and the water and grass slopes are covered with a layer of green carpet. Occasionally there are birds flying over, and soon disappeared into the sky. There are several yurts in the distance, so the original ecological landscape can not see a trace of man-made, but it is a tour of Xilin Gol League. The project, which is greatly unexpected to me. Colorful flowers can be seen everywhere on the grassland. Although I can't name all the names, it is more exciting to see dandelions. The longer the wind, the farther the dandelion flies, no matter how remote and desolate. The place where dandelions are willing to stay there is how unselfish love for the world! There is no lake on the other side of the road, but there are a lot of sand dunes and trees. In the gap between the equivalents, I started to study the attractions, because the table is suitable for taking pictures. I and my companion at a glance with the stone on the side of the road, just take a few shots, the effect is very good. If there is an afterlife, be a tree, stand for eternity, no sorrowful posture. Half is in the dust, half in the wind, half in the shade, half in the sun.