The Yurt: Kyrgyz Nomad Tent Experience | Lech Zürs

For its seventh winter season, Zayad Shah’s legendary Kyrgyz yurt finds a new home in front of the extraordinary Hotel Kristiania in Lech.

More than a bar, The Yurt is an unconventional living room, a place for encounters, art and culture.

Beneath its warm felt-covered roof, carefully selected wines and spirits meet personal hospitality and an atmosphere entirely of its own.

Conversations unfold, strangers become friends, and time quietly loses its importance.

A place of character, charm and understatement, reflecting the individual spirit of its hosts, Zayad Shah and Gertrud Schneider.

Just don´t call the yurt an igloo

It might have something to do with the fact that "there's an igloo like no other in the entire Arlberg region," as was recommended to a German couple. They open the wooden door, tilt their heads slightly to enter the brightly varnished willow dome, which is larger than it appears from the outside, and see people in T-shirts. It's pleasantly warm, the Japanese Roku Gin mixes with the excellent tonic from Le Tribute. Before you know it, and the other spirits from the Japanese "House of Suntory" have been awakened (Toki Whiskey or Haku Vodka), the time spent is a good one. The German couple felt the same way when they returned with the rest of their family, from their 20-year-old grandchildren to their 80-year-old grandparents.