Taj Shamsan Hotel Taiz
Taiz, Yemen
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Day 28
... on Ashdod(Jerusalem).
Debbie is so good, I wish I could remember half of what she tells about the places.
We had a short break & then it was choir time.
It is sign in day tomorrow to see how many we have attending.
We are learning lots of songs quickly because we have lots of ports daily soon so won't have time ...
A trip to the beach
... getting deeper and deeper into the sand. One of the guys climbed over the mountain to get some help. Pretty soon, three boats full of guys came to help out. Altogether, we heaved, hoed and bailed water with the guys yelling orders at everyone (in Arabic, so a lot of the time, we didn't know if we were supposed to be pushing or pulling). After several hours of hard muscle work, we finally ended up dismantling parts of the boat ...
A trip to Ibb and Jibla
... town called Jibla. The drive up was only about 3 hours and Mandy and I wore our nikabs because we have found that it's easier when the taxi gets stopped by the police on the way. We arrived in Ibb at about 11:00 and wandered around into shops and through the Old City. We kept the nikab on because we didn't see any women there who didn't have their faces covered. The weird thing was that we thought that we were being super-stealth, ...
The Long Wait
... before boarding the ship. At the time this sounded like a good idea but as I later found out we needn't hurry to get to the "fabulous" port of Mokha. When you here the name Mokha you probably think of a delicious cup coffee. In fact, this is where the name came from. This place used to be a major port for exporting coffee around the world. Today, after Qat has far surpassed Coffee as the drug of choice in Yemen, it is not ...
The adventures of daily life in Yemen
... is used here to clean oneself after going to the bathroom (don't worry - ours is clean). Once you have loaded the washer with water and your clothes, you set the washer to "wash" After the first wash cycle is finished, you drain the water onto the bathroom floor. You try to aim the tube towards the bathroom ...
