Northern Mongolia’s taiga does not look much like the country many travelers picture first. Instead of open steppe and wide brown grasslands, this is a colder, wetter world of larch forest, marsh, ...

When I received the book “Hearing Birds Fly” as a gift, I was immediately excited to start reading as soon as I saw the word “Mongolia” under the title. Anything that has to do with Mongolia excites ...

Nomadic routes have been central to Mongolia since 3500 B.C., and some even later became part of the Silk Road. Batzaya Choijiljav Where a family’s prized possessions are their cows and sheep, second ...

The popular "Nomad" is now about nomads in English. I did not know. There are people who send real nomadic life to Mongolia. Nomads who run pastoralists in the grassland. I caught the gel where they ...

For the past 13 years, I have been traveling the grasslands of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as an independent photographer. My aim is to document the lives of herders living in this remote ...

“Chuu!” I called—the Mongolian version of “giddy up,” but the half-wild horse I sat upon either didn’t understand or didn’t like my American accent. I traveled to Mongolia in August 2025 to see some ...

Putting a new spin on the term “digital nomad,” U.K. addressing platform what3words has partnered with Airbnb to list stays with Mongolian nomads. The startup’s simplified addressing system is being ...

Ziekmet Dergy looks back on the life of Father Stephen Kim Seong-hyeon as the soothing sunlight touches Erdensant, a collective of villages in the vast prairie land of central Mongolia, at the end of ...

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It’s been two days since we left the glittering skyscrapers and flashy hotels of downtown Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital, and began our journey to the northeastern Khentii province — the birthplace ...

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, was nothing like I expected. Beyond the stunning image of endless степpe landscapes, horse culture and ...