Drive to Manahka, Yemen Photo Gallery by Brian McMorrow at pbase.com

Drive to Manahka, Yemen

An interesting drive through the mountains southwest of Sana'a

The drive from Sana'a to Manakha is 2 1/2 hours	Leaving Sana'a	Ad for Yemen Mobile along the road	Yemenis love to build their villages on hilltops
Along the Sana'a-Manakha road	Sana'a to Manakha	Yemeni hilltop village	Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb, 3666m, the highest on the Arabian Peninsula
Village at the base of Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb	Roy with Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb	Al-Saqr, the falcon	Small settlement between Sana'a and Manakha
Sana'a to Manakha	Sana'a to Manakha	Sana'a to Manakha	Sana'a to Manakha
An hour or so out of Sana'a, the road descends a mountainside covered with terraced fields	Terraced fields, Yemen	Mountain road	Terraced fields, Sana'a to Manakha
Terraced fields, Sana'a to Manakha	Terraced fields, Sana'a to Manakha	Road works	Sana'a to Mahakha
Qat	Side dirt road	Yemeni women carrying bundles of firewood	More women carrying bundles of wood
Sana'a to Manakha	Selling Qat from the back of a small truck	Our first AK-47 on the street	Friendly villagers in a small town
Yemeni man	Yemenis chew Qat, a stimulant	Selling Qat	Yemenis cannot live on Qat alone
Yemeni man	Yemeni boy	yem3_156.JPG	Old man, Yemen
yem3_158.JPG	Yemeni woman on the roadside	Mountains near Manakha	Mountains near Manakha
Manakha district, Yemen	The mountain roads can be dangerous	Mountaintop village, Manakha area, Yemen	Mountains near Manakha
Road climbing the mountain towards Manakha	Donkey along the road to Manakha	Donkey	Traditional houses, Yemen
Mountain top village near Manakha	The area around Manakha has many small stone villages	Near Manakha	Manakha, Yemen
Boy who hopped a ride on the back of our car	Manakha, Yemen	Manakha, Yemen	Manakha, Yemen
Manakha Tourist Hotel	This young boy was driving a huge truck in Manakha	Manakha, Yemen	Haraz Mountains, Manakha, Yemen
Manakha, Yemen	Manakha, Yemen	Manakha, Yemen	3 young women carrying water near Manakha...
...while 3 young boys play	Manakha, Yemen	Manakha, Yemen	Manakha, Yemen
Manakha office of the Yemen Telecommunictions Company	Manakha, Yemen	President Ali Abdullah Saleh	Vote Yes for the Candidate of the General People's Congress
Women contribute in growth and building through their effective contributions in all fields	The horse is the symbol of the ruling Al-Motamar, General People's Congress (GPC)	Painted horses show support for the GPC, and the beverage Power Horse seems rather patriotic	Poetry still captures the imagination of the Yemenis
Boy in Manakha, Yemen	Shopkeeper, Manakha, Yemen	Small shop in Manakha	Manakha
Small girl in Manakha	Manakha, Yemen	Mountain-top village near Manakha	Heading backt o Sana'a
Donkey's and riders, Yemen	Manakha to Sana'a	Manakha to Sana'a	Mosque on the road from Manakha to Sana'a
Manakha to Sana'a	Haze covered mountain ridges, Yemen	Manakha to Sana'a	Manakha to Sana'a
Back up the escarpment with the terraced fields	Mountain side of terraced fields between Manakha and Sana'a	Mountain side of terraced fields between Manakha and Sana'a	Terraced fields between Manakha and Sana'a
Mosque between Manakha and Sana'a	Qat farm	Mountains growing red in the evening light	Getting closer to Sana'a
Outside Sana'a	House of Peace Society

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