<正>MY husband and I took a break from our busy schedules in late July 2011 to discover more of our country. Inner Mongolia,the historic and naturally beautiful meeting place of southern agrarian and northern nomadic cultures,had long been on our list of top places to visit. We decided on this occasion to do away with tour groups and headed off in our own four-wheeled transport for a five-day trip to Arxan in Northwest China’s steppe frontier.