1.   City dwellers eager to experience the Mongolian grasslands stay in yurts and drink yak-butter tea.

2.   Hohhot was once a backward country town best known as a base for tourist excursions into the surrounding Mongolian grasslands.

3.   Fires sweep Mongolian grasslands.

4.   The problem of desertification is worse in the northwest and northeast, which lie on the fringes of the Gobi and other deserts and the Mongolian grasslands.