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yuRt aNd tipi CampS

Yurt and tipi camps have been springing up all over Britain. They range from a single
canvas structure pitched in a farmer's spare field to multi-tent sites spread over
tracts of woodland and with all the activities and facilities you'd expect at a modern
campsite. Indeed, many are now designed for luxury camping: they have floorboards and
supported walls and are spacious enough to house a double bed, comfy chairs, basic
cooking equipment and a stove to keep you snug under a sheepskin blanket. Here are
our top ten favourites:

yurts, location and rates see W www.lake-district-
yurts.co.uk; T [phone]. There's also
an excellent “Hawk Walk”: spend an afternoon
walking in the nearby woodland with a falconer
who carries bait for the hawk as it follows you
overhead. ( T [phone]; costs £150).

036 full Circle yurts, lake district
Three Mongolian yurts in the beautiful grounds
of Rydal Hall, a historic house between Grasmere
and Ambleside. The yurts are made by a
Mongolian yurt-maker in Ulan Bator and have
been shipped to the UK by the owners. Each yurt
has a wood stove, a gas cooker, a bookcase and
several beds (double and single pull-out mattresses
on wooden stacks) around the perimeter. The
estate also manages its own campsite on the
grounds and guests have access to all the usual
amenities, such as a shower block and dishwashing
facilities which draw on the local spring water.

037 Cornish yurt holidays
Two handmade, stylish yurts tucked among oak
and hawthorn trees on the western edge of Bodmin
Moor. The camp has no electricity, but a wood-
burning stove in each yurt provides lots of heat and
there are lanterns to help you find your way around
the futons and huge floppy cushions. There's a small
compost toilet yurt and a cosy bathroom yurt, where
you can soak in a roll-top bath by the heat of a
crackling wood fire under the night sky.

Need to know The nearest train station is
Windermere; from there you can take a Stagecoach
bus (nos. 554 to 556). For further info on the

Full Circle Yurts: a taste of
Mongolia in the Lake District