Blogging from Mongolia
This is not about the big sell. Or making Mongolia sexy. These stories are just blog posts on running a travel and tourism business in Mongolia. The good. The bad. And the mediocre. Behind every trip that looks effortless, there’s a lot of work that isn’t: building relationships with herder and nomadic families over years, training and employing Mongolian women as trip assistants and guides, and working out, trip by trip, how to do right by the communities we visit as well as the guests we bring.
That’s the approach behind Eternal Landscapes Mongolia: slower, smaller-scale, and built around bringing in just enough extra income to genuinely help local families—without tipping their way of life into something staged for visitors. The idea is simple: guests get to experience the real Mongolia, through the people who actually live it. That takes constant, quiet effort. But it’s effort I’d choose every time.
Latest Mongolia Blogs

Eternal Landscapes: The Story Behind the Name
The name Eternal Landscapes was created in Bulgan, back in 2010. Now, there are a few towns called Bulgan in

Reflection on Equity and Challenges in Tourism
In September, we received some tough feedback about one of our tours—feedback no one wants to hear, but the kind

The Journey and the Debate: Modernity, Progress, and Cultural Identity in Mongolia
Have you ever read the book in the image below? If not, the synopsis is simple. A Fortune Teller Told

Proudly Made In Mongolia
The deel is an item of Mongolian traditional clothing and remains an integral part of Mongolian culture. You can find plain

Proud Mongols
A recent addition to our Mongolian reading list has been Young Mongols, Forging Democracy In The Wild, Wild East, by

Our Mini Plastic Free Mongolia Challenge
Last year, I wrote a post about how we need to have a rubbish revolution in tourism. This was as

The Positive Impacts Of Tourism – Meet Our Zumbee
Meet our Zumbee … Zumbee is a dedicated and long-term member of our EL family – one of our team

Providing toilets in tourism – For those that don’t give a s*!t
Toilets. Always high on the list of travel stories and experiences – especially the ones involving a dropped passport out

Gobi Gua Undur Mongolia – What’s behind a name?
Let me introduce you to a place. It is called Erdenedalai in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in Dundgobi Province – also

Slow Lane Tourism
Let Me Introduce You to Dakhar Dakhar calls the Tsambagarav Uul National Park his home. High above the provincial borders

Falling In Love With A (Mongolian) Landscape
For some, Mongolia is just a business decision. For me, it’s been a long-term love affair, filled with peaks, valleys,

Coronavirus and its impact on travel and tourism
The coronavirus is a crisis for many industries including the travel and tourism industry. The tourism industry has always been