The Republic of Yemen is a raw and soulful place.. having just came out of instability and warring in fairly recent years, much of the city is still left in ruins and the people in poverty. A number of new and modern buildings have mushroomed here and there, starkly contrasting the old low-rise buildings around it, as have many richer Yemeni strikingly stand out amongst the poorer majority for decades. As I have found in my 2005 trip in India, the common people of Yemen are generally happy, approachable, and eager to embrace exchange of knowledge and foreign cultures. It was a pity that I couldn't have spent more time there.. but the two days that I spent at Babel Yemen (the old town marketplace), I have made many friends and have felt just a brush of what wonders it might have been if I had stayed long enough to be able to have integrated a little more into being considered a 'local foreigner'. More portraits of Yemen citizens in the 'portraits' gallery.

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