About Us (and our website)

Thanks for visiting our website - we hope you find it useful - we have recently overhauled the design but we hope it still remains a good reflection of us and our business. We have been importing yurts from the same supplier in Mongolia since 2006 and have been renting out yurts on our farm for 4 years - long enough for us to feel confident that, given the right care, they can cope with the UK climate - even in Wales! If you are considering buying yurts for holiday rentals you may also be interested in our yurt holiday website www.hiddenvalleyyurts.co.uk.

We thought we should start by introducing ourselves. We are Amanda and Peter Copp and we live, with our two teenage sons, Sam and Harry, in a beautiful 82 acre valley in the Usk Valley situated in the heart of the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Amanda runs The Authentic Mongolian Yurt Co. Ltd and Hidden Valley Yurts full time, and also breeds alpacas and Jacob sheep. Peter started life a sail maker and now has a day job selling high tensile membrane structures - the high tech end of the fabric building industry and about as far as you can get from Yurt Construction.

The yurt campsite offers a perfect opportunity to test the yurts, the deck design and the effect location has on the longevity of a yurt. The past 5 years have been a terrific learning curve - and great fun. We have sold yurts for a huge variety of uses - for living in, as guest rooms, classrooms, workshops, summer houses, party tents, site accommodation, teenage dens, even a staff chill out room on a London rooftop. There really is no end to the possibilities - although there are certainly uses and locations for which yurts aren't suitable. Increasingly our main sales are to customers setting up yurt campsites - yurt holidays are becoming very popular and with the current recession biting, it seems that more and more people seem to want to holiday in the UK - and yurt camping offers a great mix of quirky comfort.....and it's environmentally sound too.

We try to keep a variety of sizes on display on our farm and have trialled them through 3 very wet Welsh winters - although we no longer routinely keep yurts up through the winter since other campsites we have sold to remain open all year round. Yurts are designed to be lived in and keeping an unoccupied yurt warm and aired is hard work - it's a bit like having an old wooden boat instead of a fibreglass one - it isn't a maintenance free option - but the reward is a beautiful organic structure that has individuality woven into its being. We never skate over the difficulties of owning and caring for a Mongolian yurt - and we sometimes advise people to buy UK made yurts rather than our felt lined Mongolian ones - for most of our customers buying a yurt is a huge investment - we want to make sure it isn't an investment they regret.