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Travel to Erlian, visa requirements / Get around / Erlian attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Erlian souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Erlian nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get outErlian is a city in Inner Mongolia.
Travel to Erlian - Visa Requirements
There are both trains and sleeper buses from Beijing. The train staion is on the eastern border of the town. The long-distance bus station is nearby, about one block west and 2-3 blocks north of the train station.
Tours and Getting around Erlian
Taxis and pedicabs are everywhere, as are vans that will offer to take you to Mongolia. (The border crossing can only be made by car or train.)
Erlian tourist attractions and sightseeing
Nothing. This is a sprawling town, with wide roads and little in the way of attractions. There is a giant sculpture at the intersection of the main roads - one running east-west from the train station, the other north-south. In the south-eastern part of town there is a huge square with the obligatory Chinese flag and some unusual dinosaur statues amongst trees at the edge of the square.
Erlian city tours
Get a Mongolian visa. The main CITS office can arrange a visa in one day for 450 yuan. You must be at the main CITS office before 9am to drop off your passport, one passport photo and the processing fee. You can pick up your passport at 3pm. The CITS office is open Monday to Friday and will even process visas during the 'Golden Week' public holidays that close the Mongolian Embassy in Beijing.
There is something of a dinosaur exhibit in Erlian. As of June 2008 the new dinosaur museum was still under construction. The site is located about 7km from the centre of Erlian. There is also a small "Dinosaur Cemetery" park (Kong Long Mu Di) with large replicas of dinosaur skeletons.
Erlian souvenirs and shopping
Erlian Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
Erlian nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs
Erlian cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels and lodging
The biggest hotel in Erlian is the Ru Yi International Mansion. Rooms start at 330 yuan per night.
There are many smaller hotels around the train station costing 50-60 yuan for a double.
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