Al Hajjarah trek

ANCIENT TOWNS AND QAT TERRACES

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December 4th 2009
Got woken up as usual by the 3am call to prayer, Josh was snoring but not as loud as the chants from the mosques. beautiful sunny day after shower headed for breakfast with Josh at the rooftop, no one was there but us and as a treat Amin boiled some eggs for us and only me ate them all, Josh left after breakfast to find the driver he wanted for our trip to Manakha in the Haraz mountains, he need t ... read more

Middle East » Yemen » Manakha

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North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern governm... ... read more