With wide open spaces, exotic culture, and spectacular nature experiences, the land of Genghis Khan, now a democracy, is gaining ever more notice from discerning travelers. So steppe right up!

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Iconic Gurvan Saikhan National Park

    Established in 1993, this country´s largest and one of the most popular of its 29 national parks covers around 27,000 square kilometers (10,425 sq. miles), of the famous Gobi Gurvan Saikhan Mountains on the northern edge of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia´s north, an hour´s flight from capital Ulaanbaatar (formally romanized as Ulan Bator), and stretching around 380km (236 mi.) from east to west and just 80km (50 mi.) from north to south. read post  

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Happy Mongolia Day! And welcome to a most singular land

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…

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  • José Balido October 16, 2024 at 3:15pm
    I recently posted a video about Mongolian throat singing (aka mouth music), made in a guttural voice and evoking the sensation of more than one pitch at a time. It´s truly amazing to hear - but of course not everyone´s cup of tea. And I also came across this cool clip of a Mongolian heavy-metal band called Uuhai which uses it in their music - and for some reason it seems like an excellent fit! Hear and read about it out yourselves: https://mymodernmet.com/uuhai-mongolian-metal-band/
    Mongolian Metal Band Uses Throat Singing and Traditional Instruments to Rock Out
    This band rocks!
  • José Balido August 7, 2024 at 1:04pm
    A good piece from CNN about Karakorum: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/karakorum-mongolia-ancient-c...
    https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/karakorum-mongolia-ancient-capital/index.html
  • Paul Varmuza March 31, 2023 at 9:58pm
    Wow, who knew? Here's why a writer for CNN Travel explains why this is the year to finally visit Mongola: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/mongolia-reasons-to-visit-2023
    https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/mongolia-reasons-to-visit-2023
  • José Balido October 10, 2022 at 11:03am
    Of Mongolia's four UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the most inspiring to me is the grasslands of the 471-square-mile Orkhon Valley (five hours by car, eight by train from Ulaanbaatar), home to various archaeological sites including the remnants of fabled Karakorum, the 13th- and 14th-century capital of the Mongol empire. Here among other things you'll find palace and temple ruins, a couple of monasteries, and various monuments: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1081/
    Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape
    The 121,967-ha Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape encompasses an extensive area of pastureland on both banks of the Orkhon River and includes numerous…
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