Yurt camping in Kyrgyzstan
Yurts. Visit Kyrgyzstan yurts and take yurt trips in Kyrgyzstan
Every tourist region is interesting, attractive and fascinating in its own way, with its many sightseeing.
We invite you to see one of the most picturesque places of country - Southern Kyrgyzstan. South Kyrgyzstan is geographically isolated from another parts of its territory and separated from another regions by mountain ranges, occupying south-east part of Fergana valley. And it was the ancient centre of Central-Asian farming-settled culture in ancient times.
This region is unique with its natural conditions and mosaic landscape. Southern Kyrgyzstan’s nature is interesting and distinctive in any season of the year. In spring, you can see unusually beautiful mountains and ridges, walnut forests in blossom. In summer, it gets original colors of desert it looks like Sahara.
The yurt (yourt, yurta), a nomad's tent made of felt, has been the traditional abode of the nomads of Central Asia from ancient times to the modern day.
The latticework wall of the yurt consists of a few sections - called "keraga". The Spherical roof is made of long poles - the "uuk", one end of the poles are fastened to the wall of the yurt and the other end stuck in a hole in a big wooden circle that forms the cupola of the yurt. From the outside, the yurt is covered with felt, or mats, fixed to the yurt by wide strips of carpet, called "bou" or "boshkur". In the centre of the yurt a fireplace is located with a tripod to hold cooking pots. A hole for light and smoke is left open on the cupola. On cold or rainy days the top hole is shut tightly with a piece of felt, which prevents the wind or precipitation from entering. Interior walls are decorated with straw mats..
In wintertime the Kyrgyzstans put 2-3 rows of straw mats along the walls, and the space between them was stuffed with straw. The floor was covered with carpets and sheepskins. Poor people could not afford expensive yurts, and they built primitive huts -called "kappa", round or rectangular in form. In those huts they survived the winter. Later, clay huts with reed roofs - or "chubtora" appeared.
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