Cumbria / The Lake District
What is a Yurt
It is fundamentally designed to be portable and carried using Camels, Yaks or in the back of a truck! It usually takes about six camels or one truck to move an entire families belongings and about an hour to pack everything. Our Yurts take a little longer, we could learn a lesson or two I suspect!
Still today even in the towns and cities many people still live in Yurts preferring to move from a regular house which they use in the summer to a Yurt in the winter. Sounds mad! But the Yurts are extremely thermally efficient and are easier to heat than a house. Usually they will build a fence around the yard, in which people may have some livestock or even a garden.
Mongolian herders are lives are an interesting blend between thousands of years of history and tradition and the new modern 21st century. Some Yurts you see will have wind turbine generators and satellite dishes to beaming TV directly into their Yurts in the middle of the Gobi desert.
From the outside they may look small, but Yurts can easily accommodate a large party. The Yurt is traditionally heated using a wood burning stove standing in the centre of the Yurt. Although due to the lack of wood in the treeless Steppes animal dung is the fuel of choice the wood burner. You may be glad to know Long Valley Yurts use wood for ours!
Equally important are the seating arrangements inside the Yurts. The most important and honoured guests sit to the top left end of the Yurt, farthest from the door. Family members will normally sit on the right side of the Yurt. The furniture is always arranged in the same way too with the kitchen to the right of the door. Minus the alter Long Valley Yurts have tried to stick to this layout as much as possible. Why not it’s worked for them for thousands of years it will work for us. Traditional Yurts consists of one or more lattice wall-sections, a door-frame, roof poles and a crown. Some styles of yurt have one or more columns to support the crown. The (self-supporting) wood frame is covered with pieces of felt. Depending on availability, the felt is additionally covered with canvas and/or sun-covers. The frame is held together with one or more ropes or ribbons. The structure is kept under compression by the weight of the covers, sometimes supplemented by a heavy weight hung from the centre of the roof. They vary regionally, with straight or bent roof-poles, different sizes, and relative weight.
While the Yurt itself is repaired and eventually replaced over a lifetime, the crown is the centrepiece of the Yurt itself would remain intact and passed from father to son upon the fathers death. A families length of heritage could be measured by the accumulation of stains from decades of smoke passing through it.
Where Next?
- Information about staying in our Yurts.
- Frequently asked questions.
- See our camping locations in Cumbria (The Lake District).
- Book you holiday with us.
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