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Stories & Guides from the Steppe

Practical planning guides and real stories from the Gobi, the steppe, and the far northern taiga, written by the same team that runs your trip.

A Tsaatan reindeer herder kneeling among a reindeer herd at sunset, with birch forest and traditional ortz tepees in the background
Culture & Nomadic Life
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Who Are the Tsaatan? Inside Mongolia's Reindeer-Herding Culture of the Siberian Taiga

In the forests of far northern Mongolia lives one of the last reindeer-herding peoples on earth, a community of only a few hundred people whose entire way of life is built around an animal most of us have never seen up close.

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