A brief history of Mongolia I was gutted that visa issues forced us to abandon our dream of travelling overland into Mongolia via the old Silk Road. Instead, we had to…
The Lakes and Mountains of Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan had been sitting on my wish list for years, and finally we made it. Looking like it was named by someone who fell…
Introducing the ‘stans Central Asia is one of those regions most people from the West never visit and rarely hear about. Sacha Baron Cohen may have put Kazakhstan on the…
If you ever want to understand Russia beyond the cities, you need to visit a village. Rural Russia is a world of its own — tough, traditional, and full of…