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Mongolia’s nomadic cultures and idyllic landscapes ...

Gobi Desert Ulaanbaatar Khovsgol Lake
The Gobi Desert is known for its rich Genghis Khan could never have envisioned Close to the Siberian border, Khovsgol Lake
repository of dinosaur remains, some dated Mongolia’s gleaming skyscrapers and features some 100 miles of shoreline that
at 80 million years old. The Gobi is still modern cars, but he’d feel right at home provide habitats for ibex, elk, lynx, and
home to some of the world’s rarest animals, among the horseback nomads clopping more than 60 other mammal species, as
including the two-humped camel, which along the roads and the traditional well as 250 bird species. Fed by 96 rivers, the
you'll have the opportunity to ride across Mongolian gers that some city dwellers still lake’s waters have also been the lifeblood
the desert, and the elusive snow leopard. live in. The riverside city boasts an array of nomadic Tsaatan people, a herding
The human history here is no less colorful, of religious sites, a host of ancient palaces, culture that has endured since the Ice Age.
as traders have trekked from dunes to rocky and labyrinthine markets which we'll Practicing shamanistic rituals, speaking
“badlands,” and caravans have traversed this explore with ease in our small group of 8-16 an ancient Tuvan language, and subsisting
arid terrain for centuries. travelers. Fascinatingly diverse, Ulaanbaatar almost entirely off reindeer herds, the
is truly a meeting place of tradition and Tsaatan lifestyle resembles that of their
innovation. ancestors from 10,000 years ago.
Flaming Cliffs, Gobi Desert
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