A solar unit sits outside a home at a herder family's home who has recently begun accepting guests via Airbnb in Altanbulag, Mongolia on Thursday, July 28, 2016.
Photographer: Taylor Weidman/BloombergRural Mongolia Steps Into the Digital World
With patchy mobile phone coverage on its vast steppes and limited land-lines to deliver internet or electricity, bringing a country like Mongolia into the digital age requires some improvisation. But farmers in the sparsely populated land are slowly joining online services like Airbnb. Photographs by Taylor Weidman for Bloomberg