Our Naadam Festival trip to Mongolia is fully booked!
All places are now sold out for this great national celebration. The Naadam Festival brings traditional competitions, culture and a unique atmosphere to Ulaanbaatar, filling the city with life.
In our travel in Mongolia, we often encounter Mongolian nomads traveling with their yurts in search of a new temporary home. It is then that many travellers realise we share something with the Mongolian ethnic group; our nomadic spirit. But despite this similarity, the Mongolians are a people with a rich history and customs and traditions far removed from Western ones. Let’s see why.
We venture into the land of Mongolia through 7 magnificent photographs that aim to capture its landscapes and ways of life. We know it is only a fleeting glimpse, but for a moment it takes us to vast green spaces, to the world of nomads who move with the seasons, and to some ways of life and customs constantly eroded by the arrival of so-called modernity.
Mongolia is often associated with the Gobi Desert, nomads travelling with their tents and Genghis Khan, once the terror of the steppes. All of that is true, but there is much more. Here are some notes from our travel journal to help you learn more about the country, its customs and way of life.
Our colleague Jordi at Viajes Tuareg specialises in Central Asia. He travelled to Mongolia at the end of the year to update our routes to Mongolia and assess potential developments in the area on the ground.
We want to share with you some of his impressions of this exploratory trip in Asia. Here are their experiences and comments.
On many occasions we travel to know new things and discover wonderful places, landscapes and sensations. But there's something else, without which travel would make no sense. Something that vividly reflects all the above, the true essence of the place: local population.
Over our many years of experience we have travelled the world, crossing paths with men, women and children from every corner of the globe. Sometimes they greeted us with smiles; at other times with wise, innocent or curious looks. In every case, their faces have remained etched in our memories and those of our travellers, becoming part of us and ensuring we never forget them.
In their honour, we have put together a collection of images of people we have met on our travel. They are the faces of the human diversity.
A great trip. is not linked to a duration, a particular destination or means of transport, but one that poses a challenge. On a night like tonight, we remember three travellers who set off on a great journey following a star: Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar. A journey through the desert to bring gold, frankincense and myrrh to a newborn.
We do not know for sure whether they crossed the desert of Namibia, Gobi, Wadi Rum and Sahara. What we do know is that each of you, as travellers, has a challenge when setting off on an adventure, whether following a star, a dream or a desire to discover new places…
A hundred years is no small achievement. The railway line connecting Russia from end to end, the Trans-Siberian Railway, celebrates 100 years since its completion. On 5 October 1916, the final section of Eurasia’s most famous railway was finished. A bridge across the Amur River at Khabarovsk completed the last stretch of the main line of the Trans-Siberian. A bridge whose size earned it the name “Miracle of the Amur” in its day, and the final piece of a monumental engineering project.
