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Middle East-Yemen-Shebam This is the Walled city of Shebam and a World Heritage Site. Spent a great day exploring this very old town . This place is sure historic and no tourists about !! |
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| The small post office processed my postcards with this nice blue cancellation and they got home quite quick . |
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Middle East-Yemen-Shebam This is the famous Rock Palace. It is quite high up and you can visit the rooms and see the view. Excellent |
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| More colourful stamps from Yemen. |
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Middle East-Yemen-Socotra-Hadibo Socotra has very unique plants and animals. Here is the famous Blood trees. They are even more impressive when you see many of them . Socotra is a World Heritage Site. |
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| This card has the faintest of postmarks. |
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Middle East-Yemen-Shebam Back now in the mainland of Yemen. Here you see many homes like this. All like little box cakes. |
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| A change of cancellation here . |
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Middle East-Yemen-Sana'a I had been reading a lot about Yemen and the shortage of water that was here. Also how unstable Yemen was. Well this was in March 2010 and I had decided to come here while it was good. Luckily for me , my timing was excellent and I had a great time here. Very friendly people and the Architecture was spectacular . Every were I went the locals told me how much they did not like their Government . It was run by a family and unless you were on the inside every thing was difficult. Still it was a city full of visual sights at every turn. Sana'a is a World Heritage Site. |
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| The Post office in Sana'a had very few stamps . But I was able to find a section that had some choice. So here is as set issued in 2009. |
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Middle East-Yemen-Socotra-Hadibo I took a flight from Sana'a to Socotra Island which is nearer the Somali coast. This was not cared for and would otherwise be a big tourist draw. |
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| The postmark here is very light . I had brought stamps with me from the purchase in Sana'a. The Post office in Socotra had very little to offer. So was sort of amazed when I produced some stamps I had ready to put on the Postcard. |
