ShibamLegend About five hundred tower houses of mud brick, five to eleven storeys, some over 30 metres, packed tight inside a wall in the Wadi Hadhramaut. They went up that way for defence, to put the households above Bedouin raids, and the... Open it on the map · Read the story
SocotraLegend An island 380 km off the Arabian Peninsula that has been separated long enough to grow its own biology. Thirty-seven percent of the vascular plants, ninety percent of the reptiles and ninety-five percent of the land snails exist... Open it on the map · Read the story
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