Ulanhot is a small city in the north east of Inner Mongolia, in the north east of China. It is a remote, dry and dust place with little for the tourist to see. I went there twice back in 2006, to teach English at the high schools there. I was the first foreign teacher to visit their schools, as so caused a bit of a stir with TV and Newspaper reporters following me everywhere. I asked my students, what interesting things are there in Ulanhot for a tourist to go and see. They thought about this for a while and finally settled on an answer—the supermarket. The city had recently had a small supermarket open and this, the students thought, was the highlight of the city for any visitor. There is in fact some interesting things to see. To the northern end of the city is a temple dedicated to Gengis Khan, the great Mongol king who united the country and built the great Mongol empire that would later engulf China and most other Asian countries as far as the Middle East, and even the eastern edge of Europe. This picture was taken from my hotel window looking northwards. The weather outside was a bitterly cold minus twenty something degrees.