Cairo

Mogadishu

2025 Yemen

  Mukalla   Wadi Do'an   Shibam   Seiyun   Tarim

Scotsman in local dress

Port of Mukalla

Al Mukalla

Al Mukalla: Note forts on ridge

Green henna & brown frankincense crystals

Waterfront

Busy Fishmarket

Swordfish

Mukalla: Precarious Tower

Camel-powered sesame press

Wadi Do'an

Wadi Do'an, from Haid Al-Jizil Resort

Village on a rock

Looking back up from valley floor

Village on a rock, from below

Colored Palaces of Buqsha

Another Colored Palace

Palace interior

Ancestral home of Bin Laden family

Street scene

Woman in traditional farming hat

Bee hives

Old fort

Unexpected cup-cake gift. It was excellent!

Shibam: "The Manhattan of Arabia"

My guide, Mr Abdulkareem

Demonstration water well Note separate rope foe emptying bucket

Seiyun

Seiyun Palace

Seiyun Palace (Museum)

Seiyun Palace interior

View over Seiyun

3 miles West of Seiyun

10 miles SE of Seiyun

Tarim

Tombs of Seven Sufi Imams

Tombs of Seven Sufi Imams

Tombs of Seven Sufi Imams

Almihdar Mosque minaret

Almihdar Mosque minaret

View over Tarim

Furnace for making local whitewash

Cairo

Mogadishu