Jixiang Youth Hostel

概要

Ningxia Jixiang Youth Hostel is a new hostel (opened April 2008) in the Xixia District of Yinchuan, Ningxia. It is the only international youth hostel in the whole of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Our aim is to become the natural starting point and gathering place for foreigner traveling in and around the exiting Ningxia province.

Ningxia is the last unexplored and undiscovered province of China. In the whole of this 6 million people small province there are only 150 foreigners residing, this is definitely the place to go to experience the essential and pure China. Yinchuan is also a natural and convenient

This tiny province is home to the muslim Hui minority, giving it a very exiting and diverse culture and feel. This is apparent in the eating culture, dress-code and the many mosques one can see spread around.

Ningxia has a long and mysterious history, with many undiscovered hidden cultural gems. Here you can find the very amazing Xixia tombs, the ancient pyramid like burial ground for the Xixia rulers. There are nine royal tombs and over 100 nobles` tombs. This ancent people used to be one of the most powerful in the whole of China, they were also the people who eventually killed the great Genghis Khan of Mongolia.