Archive for the 'Yemen' Category
Life among high-lifes
Friday, August 31st, 2007Yemen, like all countries except North Korea, has an expat community. In Yemen, though, this community is very small since Yemen is no place to be and nothing much happens here. Apart from the students who are here only short-term, there are a number of people working in the development/NGO-sector in addition to oil and […]
Hiking in Yemen: Jabal Maswar pictures
Sunday, August 12th, 2007I have now put up some of the pictures from last Friday’s hiking trip with three friends. They can be found here:
http://torstein.worren.info/images/travel/2007-jabal_maswar_yemen/index.html
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Travel description to Jabal Maswar for later reference / new travellers:
Get transport to Bayt ‘Adhaqa, about 45 minutes west of Thillah on a mostly newly asphalted road.
From the main souq in Bayt ‘Adhaqah, walk […]
Donkey business
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007A friend of mine here in Yemen, a member of, shall we say, ‘the donor community’, told me about a private little project of two colleagues of his who are quite obviously in the completely wrong country for what they are trying to accomplish.
Being animal-lovers, they fight for the rights and humane treatment of animals, […]
The Yafe’ Chronicles
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007It is much easier to be on the road in Yemen than to stay in one place. Kaare and I got off to a good start Saturday as we got through three check-points between Sana’a and al-Habilayn, the main turning for Yafe’ on the road to Aden, without being noticed by the soldiers. We were […]
Gharib Ajib
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Yemen is a wonderfully crazy country. Yesterday, while Kåre, my Norwegian friend, and I were standing by the street outside waiting for a bus, a car stopps and the guy on the passanger side leans out and gives us each a piece of fried fish. Initial attempts at saying no thanks is met with a […]
Video: The flooding of Sana’a
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Yesterday, torrential rains hit Sana’a creating flooding all over the city. My house and my room faces the Sailah, a ‘river’ that is used as a road all year long as it only rains during the summer months, and then usually not enough to create problems for traffic.
Yet, once in a while it floods […]