Central Asia’s most rapidly emerging and genuinely extraordinary travel destination — where the world’s largest steppe stretches to a horizon of breathtaking openness, the snow-capped Tian Shan mountains rise above Almaty in a landscape of Alpine grandeur that rivals any in Europe, the ancient Silk Road trading city of Turkestan shelters one of Central Asia’s most magnificent mausoleums, and a nomadic cultural heritage of extraordinary depth and authenticity continues to shape one of the world’s most fascinatingly complex and rewarding societies.