Hiking photos - A’ershan Forest National Park, October 2009
Occasionally we do trips to interesting places outside of Beijing, and in October we headed up to the A'ershan Forest National Park in Inner Mongolia. The area is amous for its volcanic landscapes, mountaintop lakes, deep forests, grasslands, rivers, and mineral-rich springs, and we spent 5 days exploring the scenery.
We picked a few of the best photos for this page; there are another forty or so in our A'ershan Forest National Park photo gallery.
Nomadic settlement on the grasslands.
Nearby the Seven Fairy Lake.
The lake in the grasslands.
Hikers at one of the 'Heavenly Lakes' in the area.
We did some hiking in the hills.
It was the right time of year to see amazing autumn colours.
An old bridge.
The lake on the right of the picture was formed by a volcanic eruption.
Wagons on the grassland.
More photos from hikes in the news section; more hikes on the upcoming hikes page.

Trees on grassy slopes (2010 visit to the Bashang Grasslands).
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