John Fusco

We drove for 10 hours on rocky trails out into the central part of Mongolia in a Russian utility vehicle with no shock absorbers. Then we arrived at a remote area where we stayed in a yurt and waited to meet a horse wrangler who was scheduled to bring our rides.

American Writer

Tim Cope

When you come out of the storms and sub-zero temperatures into a tiny yurt, there's a sense that family love and care is the most important thing in the world.

Australian Author

Joseph Monninger

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

Hannah Teter

I'm moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents' home in Vermont.

American Athlete

Yurts are associated with the nomadic lifestyle, signifying mobility and temporary settlement.

Nomadic Homes

Yurts are important in some cultures and symbolize tradition and heritage, especially in Mongolia.

Cultural Symbol

Unlike regular tents, yurts are often more durable and can have amenities like furniture and insulation.

Not Just Tents

 handle that would enjoy that as well now you said there's also camping here what kind of camping is available yeah we've got the standard car camping that people are used to but we also have yurts and cabins wait I'm gonna stop you for a second what's a yurt for people who don't know sure so a yurt is basically a tent a lot

A Napa Valley Nature...

 The yurt is like the quintessential nomadic habitat. It's made of felt, so it comes out of the animal. Outside it's very barren and you enter this yurts and it's just full of colors. It's really impressive, the contrast between this outside and this inside. And so you make tea. You make tea with milk

We Are What We Eat:...

 And, "No, no, the TED group. You must know about it." And I said, "I've been in a teepee and in a yurt for the last five years. How do I know who Ted is? Introduce me to him." Anyway, to cut a long story short, he said, "We have to do a TED Talk." Researched. Oh, exciting. That's great!

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...

 is that so many makers aren't artists at all, but scientists or engineers or welders or garbage collectors, and their works cross disciplinary boundaries, from a grove of origami mushrooms that developed out of the design for a yurt

Why art thrives at...

 And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism and the beauty of diversity. As I finish, I want to leave you with one word, or one taste. The word "yurt" in Turkish means "motherland." It means "homeland."

The revolutionary power...

 them watching friends and I'm in a yurt in the middle of nowhere and we're watching friends and I couldn't help but wonder as they're packing up their yurts and taking off on their camels are they wondering about

Wild Tales with...

 As dawn breaks over a moveable city of ten thousand yurts, Queen Boraqchin is in for a rude awakening. A rogue sheep has slipped past her servants and guards and bolted into her yurt,

A day in the life of a...

 a hundred sled dogs and we live in a yurt nothing too fancy I don't think my dad and definitely not my mom would ever want to live in a yurt at least not at this phase in their life

Episode 2: No Place Like...

 And inside the yurt, we burned dried cow dung to stay warm instead of using fuel. Everything stood in sharp contrast to my city life filled with plastic and steel.

The ancient, earth-friend...

 seem like a lot but it also doubles as the sleeping quarters so think of like small home of this type of design windproof waterproof kind of a yurt