Manakha

Last week our group took a journey into the Yemeni highlands, which are AMAZING. First of all, the mountains are unbelievably steep, so the contrast between mountain and valley is stunning. Secondly, the land is pretty fertile and good for agriculture so virtually every inch of the mountains are terraced and covered with a variety of crops. There are little villages that you KNOW haven’t changed for centuries, all sitting on top of little peaks looking over their terraced crops.

Our hotel had a night full of music and










2 Comments:
Lucky bastard... how many other students are overthere with you in this program? Pictures look great!
we started out at 28, but then the attack in ma'rib happened, and the program said that anyone who wanted to go home could, and 3 people jumped ship. and then there were 25...
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