There 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.
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There 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.
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