Standing on the vast Hulun Buir Grassland, you may feel Somewhat puzzled at its boundlessness. The brocade-like clouds look so near-as if they were just a stone's throw away, giving you the impulse to catch them. Eagerly you jump up, and start to Fun. But you soon find that they are retreating at the same speed at which you are running toward them. A little disappointed, you stop and look around. Alas, in all directions you see the horizon in the distance. At that moment, you'll feel that, except for the sky and the earth, you are the only being in this borderless universe, and you can gallop freely like a horse without a bridle and grow vigorously like a tree.

Besides changing patterns of cloud clusters high above, this fertile land is also adorned with hundreds of silver chains and numerous pearls: The rivers and lakes originating from the Greater Xing'an Mountains that range across eastern Inner Mongolia and northern Heilongjiang. Rivers in Hulun Buir share one feature: they all dash down the mountains, but when they get to the flat terrain, they become mild and take their time meandering through the meadows.

The Mergel Gol River in Chen Barag Banner is said to have "the most bends on earth." but the Yimin River, which runs from Ewenki Banner into the city of Hailar, has even more bends. Looking down from an airplane, you'll see that the upper reaches of the Yimin River form a pattern of tortuous ribbons. The fiat terrain enables the rivers to linger on as long as they wish, nurturing the land on both banks and supporting the numerous flocks and herds of Hulun Buir.

The Hulun Nur ("nur" means "lake" in Mongolian), on the Orxon Gol River, is the fifth-largest freshwater lake in China. Covering 2,339 square kilometers, the lake is also referred to by the Mongols as a "dalai fsea)." Also on the Orxon Gol River but upstream in the south is Buir Nur, the boundary lake between China and Mongolia. When spring comes, shoals of fish in the Buir Nur will swim downstream along the Orxon Gol River to lay their eggs in the Hulun Nur.

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