Off-grid getaway: Go camping, learn survival skills and sleep in a Mongolian yurt

Journalist Clara Lock (right) learns survival skills such as how to start a fire without matches at a wilderness camp run by Beyond Expeditions. PHOTO: SEEK SOPHIE
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SINGAPORE - We are barely two hours into a survival camp, gathering wood to build a shelter, when camp organiser Scott Tay raises the stakes.

"The losing team will spend the night in their shelter, and the winning team gets to sleep in the yurt," he announces.

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