On July 13 if anyone saw a group of Taiwanese housewives arriving in the mainland, their children in tow, few would correctly guess their destination. Before they actually got there, these Taiwanese guests, accustomed to luxury, couldn't believe it themselves. The place they were heading was in mainland China's far north: the steppes along the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia.
七月十三日那天，如果有人在大陸看到一群帶著小孩、來自台灣的太太們，大概很少人能真正猜到他們的目的地，因為在出發前，這些平日優渥慣了的台灣客自己也不太相信，他們要去的地方是中國大陸正北邊、內蒙古與外蒙古交界邊境的草原。