This landlocked, mostly Buddhist country wedged between China and Siberia (a bit smaller than Alaska and with a population around 3 million) was in the Middle Ages essentially a world power thanks to the westward conquests of Genghis Khan, in the 1990s Mongolia made a transition to multi-party democracy after 70 years of Communist and Soviet domination (one of the remnants of which is that its language is still written mostly in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet). And it has since become one of the more exotic frontiers in travel, thanks to... keep reading