World's biggest yurt flies the skies of China

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The biggest yurt in the world has flown the skies of China today, Kazinform reports.

The ethnic Kazakhs residing in the Aqsay-Kazakh autonomous county in China made a huge hot air balloon in the form of a yurt with a diameter of 21 meters and with a height of 23 meters. It even entered the Guinness Book of Records.

The air balloon was launched into the sky on Saturday, August 12.