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I lived the real-life nomad experience in Mongolia—riding a horse across the vast open plains and sleeping in a traditional ...
The yurt is furnished with traditional Mongolian furniture, as well as toys, clothing, jewellery, puzzles, children's toys, paintings, and CD's. To my surprise, the prices were actually equal to ...
The yurt is furnished with traditional Mongolian furniture, as well as toys, clothing, jewellery, puzzles, children's toys, paintings, and CD's. To my surprise, the prices were actually equal to ...
Always dreamed about owning your own piece of the Hill Country? A Texas couple is raffling off their luxury $7 million ...
Yurts are built to travel, but this one had come farther than most. A traditional nomadic Mongolian home was erected outside Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday, part of a colorful cultural ...
In the month leading up to the Lunar New Year this February, Olzod said she earned four million Mongolian tugrik ($1,700). With the monthly government cheque she received for each of her children ...
The yurt -- a Russified term for the Mongolian ger -- is a round structure constructed from a wooden lattice skeleton and a fabric covering, which is traditionally a layer of wool felt insulation ...
At 6:55 a.m. on Monday, a man in rural Mongolia stood outside a yurt and looked down at his watch. Five minutes remained until presidential election polls opened in the country of just three ...
And in the meantime, you can perhaps increase your own connectedness by purchasing a yurt tent from Amazon for $579. Katya Cengel writes about interesting people around the world for Smithsonian ...
Reporting from KHOGNOO KHAN, Mongolia — Deep in a desolate, rocky canyon, about 10 miles from the nearest paved road and even farther from any power line, Altai Davaa and her brother, Tsagaana ...
A group of yurts line the Mongolian countryside. Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world. Image: Tam Eastley/NPR Berlin The event starts at 20:00.