A travel advisor shares her experience as a tourist in Mongolia, saying it's one of the most unique and welcoming ...

Experience authentic Mongolian food and culture at Bataar Camp in Newberry Springs, CA, about 20 miles east of Barstow. This yurt camp offers a unique lodging experience for $120 a night, immersing ...

Kharkhorum, the one-time seat of the vast Mongol Empire, was so renowned in its day ... inhabitants in proximity to the encampment of yurts that housed the Mongolian court. Historian and Mongolia ...

Whether you really did stay in yurts and gers and sipped camel milk ... for the many countries it invaded and conquered. The Mongol empire, established by its national hero, not only revitalised ...

After the empire collapsed in 1125, it was followed by the Mongol (Mongolian) Empire, which originated in 1206 and was led by Genghis Khan (also known as Chinggis Khan). The fortress itself ...

(She was Genghis Khan’s wife—and made the Mongol Empire possible.) Several yurts, traditional tents used by Mongol nomads, dot a Mongolian landscape. Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Fototeca 9x12 In 1223 ...

It is likely that the leader of the Mongol empire Genghis Khan plotted the downfall of his enemies in his yurt once. But he probably never thought of holding a bring-and-buy sale in one. The centuries ...

Flying over Mongolia before dawn, I saw no lights below, just unfolding landscapes: a spooling river, a range of mountains surging across steppelands, an empire of grass tipping to undisturbed ...

The Mongol Empire before 1259 was the greatest land empire in history ... The empire was composed of loosely related nomadic tribesmen who have been living in felt huts (yurts) and subsisted on meat ...