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For centuries the need for security has driven the fiercely tribal inhabitants of Yemen to live together in towns that can be easily defended. Although there are district regional differences, the vernacular house is a tower, built to a height of up to 30 m. Sana’a, the capital of the Yemen, has about 14,000 of these tower houses. Typically they are six stories high, made of mud bricks decorated with thick layers of whitewashed gypsum.Opening, doors, and windows in the houses are usually emphasized in white. Photo by: twiga_swala
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Socotra Island is a part of a group of islands, which have been geographically isolated from midland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. The island is an absolutely imaginary place with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, found nowhere else on Earth.
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Socotra is the largest member of an archipelago and a four-island ellipsis that trails off the Horn of Africa into the Gulf of Aden. A mix of ancient granite massifs, limestone cliffs and red sandstone plateaus. The island is situated 250 miles off the coast of Yemen.
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Sana, San’a, Sanaa, or Sana’a – this city is the capital of Yemen and one of the most fascinating in the Arab world with it’s unique architecture and friendly inhabitants. Sana’a has been a major trading centre for south-eastern Arabia. Once a seat of government for the early Islamic caliphs, it is today the capital city of Yemen. The city’s name, Sana’a, meant “fortified place”.
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