Walking Mongolia beyond Ulaanbaatar

Where the road is as interesting as the destination.

I met Noa in Darkhan last fall, where she teaches English. Unlike most foreigners in Mongolia, she had not only chosen to leave Ulaanbaatar, but before leaving she had often trekked up into the Ger district, the most populated part of Mongolia, and one that most outsiders, and plenty of well-to-do locals, feel is unsafe, or uninteresting. Her daunting c…