Manakha

Yesterday, Friday (the same as the Western Sunday), I went on a school sponsored trip to Manakha. Manakha is about 90 km west of Sana'a in the Herraz Mountains. This region is apparently famous for its coffee, qat and the landscape. The landscape was fantastic. On the way there we even drove past the tallest mountain in the Arabian Peninsula. This area is also the ancestral home of the Ismailies. They're a Shia'a sect of Islam which still has a holy site in the area. We had a traditional Yemeni lunch and watched some more dancing. The dancing was really quite fantastic, and fun.





Here's some pictures of the town of Manakha.




The boy with the blue-ish white shirt in the middle is this kid who followed me around the entire time we were there. He kept trying to sell me with purple scarf. Whenever someone else would try to talk to me he would grab my hand and tell the other guys to 'shut up'. He kept saying that we were now friends and when we were walking on rocks and stuff he would say "nice and slow". He was really cute but he was also just working. He was just trying to get me to buy from his family's shop.