Sanaa Sana a Souk Vendor in the Sanaa Market Old City of Sana a Old City Sanaa However, the end of the school year saw me visiting four continents in the span of 25 hours en route to Sanaa, an ancient city and capital of Yemen. There had been reports of two CIA operatives getting into trouble there recently, so with some trepidation I left the airport for a nights sleep and then a tour of the city during a thirty hour layover prior to the final flight to Socotra. Sanaa was fascinating, though, with a souk or market some four thousand years old, and mud skyscrapers with distinctive trim. Twice I was invited by strangers to share a meal, and in every interaction with strangers I was met with kindness and good natured conversation. On Soctotra, I wanted to see the plants and explore the mysterious mountains at the islands core. I also had seen a couple pictures of arches on-line, and after taking students to Arches National Park for a decade, was interested in looking for natural spans within its fabulous karst topography. Within minutes of landing, we drove past a fabulous stone arch, fifty feet across, seventy. Im not sure, and high up a steep stone slope I never investigated. Later that first day was filled with tamarind and bottle trees, an unexpected downpour, swimming in a wondrous pool with freshwater crabs, and then later climbing a seemingly endless dune towards the heights.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 19:43:32 +0000
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