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... 5 continents and 24 countries over 8 1/2 months. What are our favorites? Which countries have the best food? It is all here in our blog. Also check out our photo pages at https://thetembas.smugmug.com/Our%20World%20Trip Asante Sana! Sara and Julius

Great journey I stayed for about 3 months in yemen visted its major ...

Well, I made it to Yemen. I can already tell that of all the places I have traveled, this is going to be the most eye-opening and probably challenging. When I arrived, after having a mere 3 hours of sleep in addition to roughly a half an hour of ...

... Later in to the evening when we were done chewing a smaller group of us headed to the Sheraton Hotel (one of three 5-star hotels in Sana'a) so that we could have a few drinks (haram jiddan!). I was very excited to have my first beer for 6 weeks, and was ...

... hardwood tables and clean floors.  I felt like I had died and gone to heaven!   Of course, I couldn't leave Sana'a without exploring the Old City, which was absolutely amazing.  In many ways, it reminded me of the Old City in ...

... light bulb hanging from the 15' tall ceiling, with one window looking out on the other tower houses of old Sana'a.   I wandered around a bit, soaking up my new surroundings, overlooking the trash strewn about the dusty streets, cautiously crossing ...

... down there and found a large gathering of people. I went up to this one girl and asked her if they were trying to get to Sana. She said that indeed they were. So we all waited around for some 15 minutes or so before this coach bus started driving along. ...

... a pejorative. Umm what else. Oh, I've been here only a few days but have already planned my first trip outside Sana'a. I and a couple of other CALES students (German girls, semi-cute, but German nonetheless!) and also three random tourists who were ...

... to promote themselves in the public in order to find a good husband. For the married ladies, this is the chance for them to find the wife for their son or brother. When I'm in Sana'a, I feel I'm back into the history. Time returns to long long ...

... and oil interests in the Gulf states. Plus there were reports yesterday of a seven hour gun and grenade battle here in Sana'a between government forces and escaped al-Qaeda operatives. Woohoo - fun times! I'm painting a worrisome picture, but I can ...

... worst student in my class at B'ham Uni. I've not ventured around too much so far, so I couldn't tell you too much about Sana'a where I'm staying. The weather, however, is just perfect. It's not as hot as much of Yemen and the Middle East as it's 8000 ...

... had no plan of what to do once I arrived there.  But after gazing upon the beautiful buildings of Old Sana'a and experiencing such warmhearted hospitality from the Yemeni people all my doubts about coming here melted away.   It is ...

... every other day of the year! Well anyway, I had hoped that such a big win may spark some civil unrest, but here in Sana'a (a Saleh stronghold like so much of the north) it's more likely that a close result would have led to violence. Either way, I'm ...

... Despite my illness, I am making an attempt to wake up early (early from Ramadan standards...meaning 11 or so) and see Sana'a. I am also using Arabic as a deterrent from focusing on the strange bubbling noises in my stomach. Those are not happy ...

Life post-Eid has settled down in to a familiar routine here in Old Sana'a - my social circles have adjusted and set, the weather remains consistently fair and my daily meals are predictably insipid... the only added flavour to such bland fare coming not ...