Tell people you're going to Yemen and they ask the same question: what do you actually do there? A week in the southern Hadhramaut answers that comprehensively. Mud-brick skyscrapers, desert pilgrimage shrines, canyon villages, world-class honey and a fish market on the Arabian Sea. Here is the full day-by-day breakdown.
Read full storyThere is a moment on the road from Seiyun when Shibam appears out of the valley floor and everyone in the vehicle reaches for their camera. Five hundred mud-brick towers, up to ten storeys tall, still lived in, still maintained by the same families who built them five centuries ago. Here is what it is actually like to visit.
Read full storyThe Yemen you see on the news is not the Yemen you visit, and tours operate exclusively in the Hadhramaut, a vast valley region in the southeast that has remained largely stable for years. Here is an honest answer from someone who has been there and runs tours there regularly.
Read full storyYemen is the birthplace of coffee culture, home to a honey that sells for more than perfume, and the keeper of a feast tradition that turns every lunch into an event. Here is what to expect.
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