Before Kazakhs and Mongols first straddled horses and the world’s first cavalries swept westward into what would become Europe, contact between occidental cultures and oriental cultures was nearly non-existent. When they did finally meet, each considered the other “exotic”, which is another way of saying “very different”. Explore Asia and discover exotic lands that span from the Mongolian kingdom of Genghis Kahn to the realm of real-life dragons on the Indonesian islands of Komodo.