Trekking Travel’s Hottest Trend
Trekking has taken over travel. But what is trekking? Trekking really just means to travel on foot. But often you’re going over rough terrain, with elevation gains, to experience natural landscapes and make authentic cultural connections with people and places. Another important distinction is that you’re traveling this way—rather than an out-and-back day hike. A […]
Where Livestock Outnumber People: How One Traveler Maintained Her Vegan Lifestyle While Traveling to Mongolia By Wanda Plucinski
I was all set for my journey to Mongolia, but after becoming vegan seven years ago, I planned to have few options in a country where meat is a staple
Ecosystems of the Gobi Desert
It’s not often you hear the word Gobi without the word desert attached: the image of a barren, lifeless place of endless billowing sand dunes is firmly affixed to the term desert in the mind of the general public.
Packing List Mongolia: Travel Tips
What should you put on your packing list for Mongolia travel? Check out these travel tips and pack list items for the adventure traveler!
The Mongolia Tour: Painting the Snow Leopard Volume 5
Volume 5: Through the Eyes of the Snow Leopard. Joe Rohde's incredible journey through Mongolia continues.
Carol Tanenbaum – A Photojournal Excerpt
Lake Hovsgol Feb 19, 2007 — Beginnings The road from Moron to Lake Hovsgol is more the suggestion of a pathway for vehicles than a highway. Deeply frozen ruts, mostly, interspersed with rocky patches. The two-and-a-half hour trip becomes smoother once we reach the lake, as the lake turns into the highway. It begins to […]
Sas Carey Q&A: An Interview with the Nomadicare Founder
“Footprints carry a person’s individual vibration, recognized by the spirits,” writes Sas Carey, author of Reindeer Herders in My Heart — Stories of Healing Journeys in Mongolia. In this candid interview Sas speaks about one of the last remaining nomadic societies on Earth, their way of life, history, religious practices, strengths, and their determination to keep the […]
The Frozen Highway
A short trip to Lake Huvsgul Our Nomadic Expeditions colleague Ider Batbayar speaks about his recent experiences trekking through northern Mongolia and over the frozen Lake Huvsgul, the world’s cleanest freshwater lake. My recent trip to Lake Huvsgul in northern Mongolia occurred while the lake’s surface was frozen as deep as 3-4 ft. I journeyed with the […]