A journey through Inner Mongolia’s grassland reveals the enduring pulse of nomadic life
Content warning: descriptions of animal slaughter
Leaning back on the bed inside his yurt, somewhere on the endless grasslands of Inner Mongolia, Bayar seems to be not just looking at me—a city boy hunkered down across from him—but into me. “You’re very quiet,” he says after a long while in his native Mongolian.
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Secrets of the Steppe: A Road Trip Through China’s Northern Borderland is a story from our issue, “Online Odyssey.” To read the entire issue, become a subscriber and receive the full magazine.
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