There’s no Tinder in the desert: How Chad’s Wodaabe nomads find love

Tariq Zaidi August 27, 2018 Share this article They’ve been called ‘the vainest tribe in the world’ and, once a year, Chad’s Wodaabe nomads get dressed up and dance for hours in the stifling sun in an attempt to attract a mate. Photographer Tariq Zaidi pays them a visit. Dawn breaks in the semi-desert Sahel […]

The last wanderers: Inside the lives of Mongolia’s nomads

Share this article The Kazakhs of western Mongolia are one of the world’s last surviving nomadic cultures. From sumo wrestlers as wedding entertainment to bona fide eagle hunters, photographer Susan Portnoy captures a world steeped in tradition and virtually untouched by modern times. It’s dawn on my first full day in western Mongolia and I […]

This Skinny White Guy Wrestled Mongolian Nomads … and Survived

Two and a half months in Mongolia hadn’t broken me yet. I may be, by nature and birth, a small-town Englishman, culinarily unadventurous and perfectly content just streaming British TV on my laptop, but the opportunity for a funded journalism internship to literally the remotest country in the world had come my way — why […]