Hadda Hotel Sanaa

Hadda Road Sanaa, Yemen

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"Alex"

A travel blog entry by landerh

... But that night after feeling like a complete slug I decided to walk alone around the Old City (I never know when to capitalize that so I do it at random). The old city is just so marvelous. So I lost myself on purpose in the maze and finally found myself at Bab al Yemen (the famous entrance to the Old City (now I'm doing it on purpose) that I think I've mentioned before. In Yemen walking around the unlit back streets I've never ...

My life as it stands

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... said, "Yes." Okay not typical. Not me AT ALL.
So Danielle dressed me up in the lowest v-neck shirt I've ever worn in my life (yep, in mother-friggin' Yemen) and Jann, Jann's co-worker (again I shall butcher a name) Kalifa (totally from Burkina Faso), and Yousof came and picked me up and we all went to the Russian Club. The Russian Club. It was at one point described to me as a porch with alcohol and a plethora of prostitutes. When I heard prostitutes I ...

Here's 2--3 Weeks Worth of Blog

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... clear stream that I
imagine was a raging river in its heyday, the plethora of green plant
life, and the women wearing their niqabs doing laundry and washing
dishes in the stream. We climbed back down and met up with group #1.
They'd found a super little swimming hole so the dudes had gone
swimming. Me and my appropriate Yemeni modesty watched on with
jealousy.

We
headed back toward the little town because we'd seen a road in
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Day late and a dollar short

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... theirs, too. Of course I obliged.

Did I mention it was raining. These raindrops are monstrous and the streets quickly fill with water. So it was pretty nice that the group of us could snag a table (Aaron- America, Felix- France, Kenneth- Denmark, Danielle- America, Mike- America, Kevin- America, and myself) while the torrent raged on outside. Apparently the rainy season didn't happen this year so it's probably good they're getting ...

Not my fault this is late, the internet was down

A travel blog entry by landerh

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... to meander back toward the
Markez (where we're staying). We found a nice little cafe called
theكافتي& #1585;ية
ألاصد 02;اء(Friends Cafeteria) with it's rainbow
colored sign. It was pretty amazing. Here's the lineup: fresh
squeezed OJ, Yemeni coffee (I'm not quite sure what was in it but it
was pretty nifty), a huuuuuuuge plate of chicken and rice, khobz
arabii ...

This hotel was formerly known as: Best Western Hadda