Drive a jalopy to Mongolia and help save the world
4 min read • Oct 21, 2019
Every year, dozens of travellers jump in worn-out junker cars to drive across Europe to a remote part of Siberia in the name of adventure and helping to stop…
Travel Stories
Mongolia
- Meet a traveller: Chris Sheldrick, world mapper and CEO of what3words
7 min read • Jul 16, 2018
Chris Sheldrick spent a decade in the music business, promoting bands and producing big events all over the world. Frustrations with suppliers not finding…
- A Trans-Mongolian adventure: riding the rails from Moscow to Beijing
6 min read • Oct 5, 2017
Click-clacking along the tracks for thousands of kilometres, getting a glimpse into some of the most intriguing places on earth – it’s easy to understand…
- In the shadow of Tavan Bogd: wild western Mongolia
5 min read • Oct 26, 2016
The rugged and remote far reaches of western Mongolia are a series of wild landscapes capped by glacier-wrapped mountains, divided by green river valleys…
- Land of the blue sky: 10 reasons to visit Mongolia now
5 min read • Aug 11, 2016
One of the last surviving nomadic societies, half of Mongolians live pastoral lifestyles little-changed since the days of Chinggis Khan. The rest mostly…
- Beyond the dunes: road-tripping Mongolia's Gobi Desert
5 min read • Oct 1, 2015
Giant sand dunes fringed by sun-scorched valleys. Primordial fossils hidden within flaming-red cliffs. The sun setting pink and purple over a Mongolian…
- Mongolia's lost secrets in pictures: the golden eagle hunters
3 min read • Sep 25, 2014
The Altai Mountains run from Siberia in Russia all the way down to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. An enormous mountain range, it covers a vast area of over 16…
- Mongolia’s lost secrets in pictures: the Kazakh horsemen
3 min read • Sep 8, 2014
The wild and remote western edge of Mongolia is home to a group of Kazakh nomads. Here, among the soaring Altai Mountains, which climb up to 4100 metres,…
- Mongolia's lost secrets in pictures: the last Tuvan shaman
3 min read • Aug 21, 2014
The high Altai Mountains region of far western Mongolia is a wild, dramatic and exhilarating land where eagles circling overhead are commonplace and…
- A clockwise tour of eastern Mongolia
6 min read • Dec 9, 2013
Solitude, remoteness and a sense of boundless space draws the most adventurous travellers to the little-visited hills, mountains and grasslands of eastern…