Over 1,000 years ago, the Mongols used yurts as mobile shelter. Nowadays, folks buy prefab yurts and use them to set up camp or as a permanent place of residence—and business is booming. “We are ...

Eighteen years ago, I stayed in my first yurt. I was visiting New Hampshire on a backcountry ski trip to the now-defunct Phillips Brook Backcountry Recreation Area, a system of 11 yurts, 75 miles of ...

A yurt is a round cylindrical dwelling capped with a conic roof that's been in use for at least the past few thousand years. Originating in Central Asia (Genghis Khan and his horde used them), the ...

Just because summer is on its last legs doesn’t mean that you can’t take advantage of a weekend getaway with family or close friends. Traveling in 2020 has become something completely new and ...

The grassland gave birth to nomads, who successively took huts, tents and felt tents as their living places. All of them are movable and inclusive. The yurt, as a type of traditional felt tent, is a ...

Whenever Ban Fengbin has time, he visits a yurt he purchased from a local herdsman's family several years ago. "They barely used it," says the man born and raised in Sonid Right Banner, Xiliin Gol ...