The Breathtaking Beauty of Yemen

[being lonely]

Those who look for Yemen on a map usually think of it as a purely desert landscape. Of course, a large part of the country is covered by desert, but more defining are the high mountains with their famous terrace cultivation and the fruitful valleys where it is possible to harvest anything and that up to four times each year. The coastal lowlands with endless kilometers of fine sand, the islands situated in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, where a multitude of endemic species are to be found.






The earlier and current architecture provides impressive evidence of manifoldness. Turkish fortresses, multi-storey buildings made of baked clay bricks, quarry stone buildings without foundations proudly situated on top of mountains, palaces made of dried clay bricks….







In addition, to all of these things, evidence in form of well-preserved ruins showing that even in Yemen there had been advanced civilizations at the time when Pharaohs were at the climax of their might. It is not possible to do Yemen justice within a short piece of text. Not in vain have many repeatedly tried to capture the charm of Yemen within text and pictures.

[Abner321]

Before reading this thread I thought that Yemen is a backward region and there is nothing to see. But after seeing these photos my idea has been changed now. I would like to explore this region as soon as possible to visit its all important and beautiful sights.,