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.

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Happy Mongolia Day! 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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A bus ride across Mongolia

Mongolia strikes me as more than the sum of its individual parts. As we drive from capital Ulan Bataar westward across rolling plateauland to the small city of Tsetserleg, in a valley of the Khangai Mountains, I sometimes have to pinch myself to remind myself of where I am. It reminds me more of Bolivia than anything I’ve seen before, both the people and the landscape, vast and desolate, but not desperate... keep reading

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  • 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
  • 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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