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Experience authentic Mongolian food and culture at Bataar Camp in Newberry Springs, CA, about 20 miles east of Barstow. This yurt camp offers a unique lodging experience for $120 a night, immersing ...
It's tea time for a Mongolian family in their ger (aka a yurt). It's easy to see why families that live in a yurt are ... close to each other. So if you're feeling a bit ... disconnected from your ...
Though it was far warmer than that, a persistent wind whipped around glittering, metres-high ice sculptures as visitors ducked in and out of the round yurt tents set up to showcase Mongolia’s ...
At its peak, the monastery was home to more than 100 temples, around 300 yurts, and 1,000 monks in residence. Today, Erdene Zuu Monastery is one of Mongolia’s most sacred Buddhist temples ...
Architect Nandin's art installation Ger in the Wind Photo: Courtesy of Nandin Architect Nandin's Mongolian yurt project in Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: Courtesy of Nandin ...
Zoljargal Purevdash’s debut feature If Only I Could Hibernate tells the story of a teenager living in the yurt district of Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, who is determined to win a physics ...
When Italian Cardinal Giorgio Marengo first arrived as a missionary priest in Mongolia 20 years ago, his mission set up two yurts (round tents) in the steppe — one for activities and one for ...
A 2023 report on behaviors among Mongolian yurt dwellers in China in the journal Buildings takes it a step further. According to the study, Mongolian spiritual beliefs originate from the form and ...