yemen
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| Sana'a Old Town with its fancifully decorated tower houses above the main souk Ref:MKYEC449 |  |
| Sana'a Old Town with its fancifully decorated tower houses above the main souk Ref:MKYEC450 |  |
| Early morning light on Yemen's capital city Sana'a, its Old Town a Unesco World Heritage site Ref:MKYEC451 |  |
| In Sana'a tower houses overlook vegetable gardens where Unesco's World Heritage project began in 1986 Ref:MKYEC452 |  |
| In Sana'a Old Town tower houses loom over taxis and cars Ref:MKYEC453 |  |
| Shibam, mud-brick city in the Hadhramawt, bears the nickname 'Manhattan of the Desert' Ref:MKYEC454 |  |
| Yemen's famous skyscraper city Shibam is a distant mirage beyond camels in a desert market Ref:MKYEC455 |  |
| Children playing football near a 'suburb' of Shibam's walled city in the Hadhramawt Ref:MKYEC456 |  |
| In Seiyoun, capital of Yemen's Hadhramawt, the sultan's palace (now a museum) gleams above a market Ref:MKYEC457 |  |
| Mud-brick tower houses behind the market in Seiyoun, the Hadhramawt capital Ref:MKYEC458 |  |
| A veiled woman is a motorbike passenger passing a Hadhramawt shopping 'plaza' Ref:MKYEC459 |  |
| Men relax at a central café in bustling Seiyoun, the Hadhramawt capital Ref:MKYEC460 |  |
| A newly built Islamic shrine emerges from the ruins of a mudbrick house near Al Hawta Ref:MKYEC461 |  |
| In the Hadhramawt's Wadi Do'an a village rises from seemingly arid terrain Ref:MKYEC462 |  |
| Date palms provide wealth to a village in the Hadhramawt's Wadi Do'an Ref:MKYEC463 |  |
| In the Hadhramawt's Wadi Do'an people head towards a small village Ref:MKYEC464 |  |
| West of Yemen's capital veiled women descend to the road below from the village of Al-Taweela Ref:MKYEC465 |  |
| Men perform a knife dance to honour a friend getting married that day in Thula Ref:MKYEC466 |  |
| Women in public are always veiled; a market display suggests at-home possibilities Ref:MKYEC467 |  |
| A shop's blue window frame in Amran, where most buildings are of mud bricks and straw, displays the owner's distinctive taste Ref:MKYEC468 |  |
| Window bars prevent a small boy from falling from a tower house into the street helow Ref:MKYEC469 |  |
| A large cistern is prominent in the ancient village of Hababa west of Sana'a Ref:MKYEC470 |  |
| A camel caravan traverses Wadi Sara'a in western Yemen Ref:MKYEC471 |  |
| Chewing qat, a leafy stimulant, is a nationwide habit; fresh bundles are widely available Ref:MKYEC472 |  |
| The terraced village of Bani Sa'ad viewed from the high Bakour plateau with the Haraz mountains beyond Ref:MKYEC474 |  |
| Among Yemen's many scenic splendours are the Haraz mountains in the west; Ref:MKYEC475 |  |
| Tiny villages dot hundreds of high crags in the Haraz mountains Ref:MKYEC476 |  |
| Hajjarah with its tall tower houses is a popular base for trekking in the Haraz mountains Ref:MKYEC477 |  |
| The plateau above Wadi Dahr and its renowned Rock Palace draws Yemeni families on weekend outings Ref:MKYEC478 |  |
| A young couple, the woman veiled as tradition demands, enjoys a stroll on the Wadi Dahr plateau Ref:MKYEC479 |  |
| The main attraction at Wadi Dahr, west of the capital Sana'a, is the renowned Rock Palace, once an imam's summer retreat Ref:MKYEC480 |  |