From the old capital of Karakorum to the new capital of Ulaanbaatar, it’s a six-hour drive—a journey that took the Mongols nearly a thousand years....

We’re heading to a place called Karakorum, a city that still carries the former glory and pride of the Mongol Empire. The bus ride from Ulaanbaatar to Kharkhorin takes about half a...

Riding Mongolian Railway Train No. 23, I arrived in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar....

There’s one item on my bucket list that I hope to experience in my lifetime: some of the world’s most famous train routes (as long as I’m not doing it alone). From the Orient Expre...

The “-stans” of Central Asia are also an important part of the Silk Road. But as former Soviet territory, they remained quite closed off until a few years ago, with visa rules near...