Mongolia Travel News

When Mongolia's most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex , returns to the Asian country on May 18, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them.

Traveling in Mongolia through fields of wildflowers is not the typical image one has of this vast and mystical land.

I wanted to go on a trip that was off the beaten path and so I picked Mongolia. I knew it was going to be quite an effort to get there so I wanted to make the most of it.

The past year has heightened some important security landmines in East Asia. There is the usual cycle of "provocation followed by negotiation" by a not-so reformed regime in North Korea.