Thursday, 21. May 2009, 18:41:13
lifestyle, mukalla, people, yemen
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The next day we were leaving to Al-Mukalla through the Wadi Dow'an valley (see the picture below), which is renowned for it's palm forests and rivers. Unfortunately, rivers were dry, so we had nothing left to do but practice our kalashnikov shooting skills.
By the evening we arrived to Mukalla, the first westernized Yemeni city we've encountered (though the most famous is surely Aden).
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Tuesday, 19. May 2009, 20:19:36
people, arabs, lifestyle, yemen
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It was late night when I arrived to Sana. Not having any luggage (except carry on) is a sweet habit I try to follow, which among other benefits includes smiles of a great relief at the airport check-in counters and an extra fast “check-out” after landing. Usually this means that you would have a good chance of not being noticed by police, since they normally watch for the most of the people (which wait for their luggage). That was not the case this time: even though I was fast, I was approached by somebody, who with no apparent reason made me proceed to the tourist office where I was presented some free (but pretty useless) brochures. That was unusual. And that is when I realized that finally I was in another world. The world that I missed since I left Morocco last year.
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