Forget Europe. This massive landlocked country in Asia is an underrated gem for all kinds of travelers, whether you want a ...

We'd arrived at Saty, a small village in southern Kazakhstan, after driving all day from Almaty through an otherworldly terrain of wide steppe grasslands, narrow gorges and snow-capped mountains.

In the vast, central territory of Kazakhstan, where the landscape is dominated by flat and boundless steppe, the Bektau Mountains rise suddenly, as if from nowhere. The distant peaks appear volcanic ...

Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of southern Kazakhstan. Anna Yu/Alamy The foothills of Kazakhstan’s Tian Shan mountains are something of a genetic wonderland. This vast ...