Mongolia (37 Photos)

With Genghis Khan as their perpetual leader, in a land the size of Western Europe you feel small in every single way. But the spirit of the Mongols is fed to you in cultural ways and by the time you leave you're kin and kith have the weathered faces of nomads, and your spirit longs forever more for the galloping grasslands of the Gobi.

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