We plan this in July 2021 with a caravan trip to Hulumbuir, Inner Mongolia.
We will have a road trip from Shanghai to Inner Mongolia, which will last about four weeks. This will be our most extended road trip in China. Our family consists of two adults and two children, ages 12 and 14 + a guard dog the size of a big cat. We have some people from our friend circle who have shown interest in joining, but there is usually the limiting factor with long leaves from work.
Therefore, there is an additional plan for shorter holidays (10 days) by flight or taking the train to Hulunbuir, and we will all meet there. We will start our journey earlier by driving from Shanghai and agreeing on a date to meet and gather in Hulunbuir. Before starting, we need to Prepare for the long summer trip.
We still need to verify and check some issues.
- RV availability in Hulunbuir. Maxus has a rental place in Hulunbuir, and the availability needs to be confirmed. Also, Maxus has an app called RV2GO, which allows you to search for and rent an RV. For some reason, the rentals are not yet available for July, and we are following up on this. We want to use Maxus only because it is a big/reliable company with many rental locations. There are some minor issues with other rentals, so we prefer them.
- Travel directly to Hulunbuir. There are several options, but what is the best is still pending. Once per day, there is a direct flight from Shanghai, taking the train from Shanghai to Hulunbuir, mixing trains and flights.
- Each individual needs to handle all the rentals and flights/trains. If there are more families, we can negotiate with Maxus to reduce the price. We are not a travel agency, but we would like more people to enjoy travelling in China by motorhome and be nicer together. On our website, CrissCrossChina, there is more information regarding travel in China by RV.
We will continue to update you about the Road trip from Shanghai to Inner Mongolia.
This will be our planned route, but anything can be changed. We plan to take it easy and visit some camping grounds and sightseeing places. It will be a long trip; we need all four planned weeks to make it.
Inner Mongolia Wikipedia
Correction to the map after the trip. We skipped Xi’an after the news of COVID-19 restrictions started appearing here and there and decided to drive in the south instead. The total distance we covered during the Road trip from Shanghai to Inner Mongolia was 7200km.
Read More: Some additional information before the trip | Road trip | Inner Mongolia 2021
Update to Road trip Shanghai to Inner Mongolia 14.6.2021
We are now a total of 4 families travelling to Hulunbuir. The meeting date would be 10th July; our family is the only one driving up there. We will start the journey on the 2nd or 3rd of July from Shanghai, and others will take flight and have rented the RV from the Maxus centre there.
Here are some updates from our side for the road trip in China. We have now changed our plan regarding an RV rental and rented a caravan instead. Finding an RV in our price range was difficult, and the layouts were not to our liking. We found a small rental company with caravans, and the design was suitable for us.
- Ski box for more storage space, 700L
- Mirror extensions
- Installing the towing hook for the car.
- Fire extinguisher, 2kg
- Service of the car: oil/filter change, fuel filter change, check of brake pads, air filter change, and verification underneath the car that all is OK (shockers, springs).
- Additional pockets and a soft table are used behind the kids’ seats.
- A mosquito net tent will be used in Inner Mongolia, and I don’t know if it is needed, but it would be nice to have dinner outside without the mosquitos.
- Update of our First Aid kit. Bandages, medicines for different uses.
Chinese MIY MYY9012XLJ03 caravan
Rental of RV in Hulunbuir
Here is some price information from Maxus, including a driver for seven days. We received this from their sales staff via WeChat. You can scan the QR code or use this link. Unfortunately, the whole page is Chinese, but you could use Google Translate.
In our Preparations for the long summer trip, we will drive up north by RV from Shanghai and meet in Hulunbuir. Depending on how long you will be there, we can travel together and enjoy Inner Mongolia.