Tag: Guide
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Travel to Georgia: Reserve Your Own Private Village
Looking for the perfect getaway for the times? The Lost Ridge Inn, Brewery, Fire Kitchen & Ranch is the very first rural getaway of…
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Lovin’ the Pamirs: Tajikistan’s Other Half
Jake Smith joined MIR’s Seattle staff after several years of living and working in Tajikistan, as well as traveling to the far corners of…
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Insider’s Guide to the Top 8 UNESCO Sites & Experiences in Uzbekistan
A quest for the quintessentially best in world travel can yield remarkable, thought-provoking experiences. Some travelers find such experiences in historic or natural UNESCO-listed…
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Krygyzstan: Why I Love This Unfamiliar Frontier
I can’t even count the extensive scouting trips I’ve taken through Central Asia, but those to the countryside of Kyrgyzstan, the Silk Road’s best kept secret, always stay…
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Remote Turkmenistan: 7 Surprising Ways to Go Off-the-Beaten-Path
The most mysterious and under-explored of Central Asia’s five ‘stans, Turkmenistan is an unparalleled travel destination like no other. Those who visit this little-known nation tend to focus…
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Insider’s Guide to the South Caucasus: Georgia’s Wine Country
Georgia’s Kakheti region is famous for its wine, and the towns and wineries here are definitely worth a visit… and a wine-tasting. Three places of note:…
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Up-and-Coming Uzbekistan: A Local’s 7 Great Reasons To Visit Now
Uzbekistan’s fabled Silk Road gems — Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva – with their exquisite Islamic architecture and spellbinding cache of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, have long…
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The Timeless Appeal of the Republic of Georgia
MIR Vice President Annie Lucas has traveled to the Republic of Georgia countless times over the last 25 years and is MIR’s resident Georgia travel expert. …
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Secrets of Samarkand
Perhaps the most well known of Silk Road towns, Samarkand, the fabled oasis on the fringes of the Kyzyl Kum Desert, has been settled…
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Why Travel the Silk Road, and Why Now?
The Silk Road was not a single road; it was a far-flung web of lonely camel tracks leading from the East to the West and…
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