We spent a few more days in San’a before heading out to some of Yemen’s oldest towns, situated in the surrounding highlands. We eventually made our way to the port town of Al Makha (on the red sea coast), our jumping off point for Djibouti (or so we thought…). For four frustrating days we arrived [...]

Wow!! That’s the only word that can describe the change in scenery as we rode from Oman into Yemen. Oman with its new roads, orderly towns and laid back people, is a world away from Yemen who’s towns are full of crumbling infrastructure, noisy locals and litter…. plenty of litter. There IS something very addictive [...]