It is said that if you rolled Kyrgyzstan out flat, it would have a greater land area than China. This tiny, mountainous Central Asian republic shot to (relative) fame as the host country of the Worldwide Nomad Games, but its appeal extends well beyond its nomadic culture. With dramati

Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel sets the agenda for tourism in the year ahead: it is the mother of all travel trend lists. And for 2020, Lonely Planet has selected the Central Asian Silk Road — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan — as the #1 reg