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Yemen is a conservative country and
one needs to realize this and come to terms with it. The
infrastructure here is only beginning to cater to western
tourists and cultures. There is no night life here as we
would consider it. Though walking through the old city at
night is lovely. There are no real night clubs and one can
get a reputation pretty quickly by being seen at the one and
only bar at the Sheraton hotel. Like in most conservative
cultures, your reputation means everything. Traveling is not
very difficult and relatively cheap, but be prepared to be
charged double what a Yemeni would pay.
I look forward to getting to know you
better and I can’t wait to be with you the first time you
are on a debab ( mini bus) and a small boy gets on holding a
lamb, or a baby goat. This place is absolutely amazing. It’s
really like the past and the present crashed together into
one place. Every day I see something here that I know that I
would never have seen anywhere else. I will miss being here
when I go home in September (to hopefully attend grad
school) and I hope that you will feel the same way about
this place after your stay.
Ma’a Al-Salamah ( “Good-bye”)
Gina
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