When shelter-seeking nomads first erected their rondavels of wood and felt on the steppes of Central Asia, they did not, I suspect, string them with fairy lights and install a pizza oven. But they did kick-start a trend. Albeit one that took 3,000-odd years to catch on.
“In 2006, I started a blog curating unusual accommodation around the world,” says Garri Rayner, founder of goglamping.net. “I began to notice a trend emerging for ‘glamping’, as it swiftly became known. At that time, in North America the trend was defined by high-end safari tents. In the UK, it was all about yurts.”
Yes, yurts (aka “gers”) started appearing all over the British countryside, targeting the increasing numbers of…
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