In Mongolia, desert nomads herd camels from pasture to pasture as they have for centuries. But as Italian photographer Michele Palazzi documents in his photo series Black Gold Hotel, these ...

That sound meant something had gone awfully wrong: The precious underground water that sustains the herders’ fragile existence was flowing down into the brackish aquifer controlled by a booming copper ...

I never thought I'd describe a camel as cuddly. Then again, living in New York City, there aren't many opportunities to ...

Helen’s third book,”Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile Trek Across A Desert of Hope and Despair,” (Mountaineers Books, 251 pp., $23.95) is a straight-forward narrative of an extraordinary ...

Three Camel Lodge: Mongolia's Three Camel Lodge aims to introduce guests to the region's traditional nomadic way of life.It has 40 gers -- round, tent-like dwellings made of wood, felt and rope.

The Gobi is the sixth largest desert in the world, stretching into northern China and defined by its extremities. Much of the desert is not sand, but rocky terrain, making it a hostile environment ...

Click on the gallery and wander through this fascinating land of the nomads. ... Gobi Desert. The Gobi covers 30% of Mongolian territory, though only 5% of its total area is sand dunes.

It’s all part of the isolated wilderness experience on offer at the Three Camel Lodge, an eco-resort in Bulgan in Mongolia’s Gobi (which means desert), one of the most remote places on Earth.

Three Camel Lodge: Mongolia's Three Camel Lodge aims to introduce guests to the region's traditional nomadic way of life.It has 40 gers -- round, tent-like dwellings made of wood, felt and rope.