Yurt

A yurt is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt, traditionally used by nomadic peoples across the steppes and mountains of Central Asia, including Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Mongolians, who call it a ger, and various other Turkic groups. Its frame combines a flexible angled latticework of wood or bamboo for the walls, a door frame, ribs or rafters, and a wheel or crown at the top forming a compression ring, typically covered in felt made from sheep's wool and sometimes layered with canvas; the frame can be carried on camels or yaks and a complete yurt can be set up or taken down in as little as thirty minutes, generally housing between five and fifteen people. Nomadic herding with the yurt as housing has been the primary way of life across Central Asia, particularly Mongolia, for thousands of years.