For several years, the European Union has been maintaining an airline black list. The list contains the bottom of the barrel in the aviation world. On it, you won't find any of the big global carriers, but it is very well represented by countries like Kazakhstan, Angola and ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Yemen
European Union proposes global airline black list after Yemen crash
For several years, the European Union has been maintaining an airline black list. The list contains the bottom of the barrel in the aviation world. On it, you won't find any of the big global carriers, but it is very well represented by countries like Kazakhstan, Angola and ...Nine foreigners kidnapped in Yemen
Nine foreigners, including three children, have been kidnapped in northern Yemen, the BBC reported.
The foreigners were having a picnic when they were taken on Friday by the Huthi Zaidi, a Shia rebel group. The victims include a British and a Korean citizen. The rest of ...Yemen? Yeah, man.
Travel writing is usually at its most interesting, in my opinion, when it takes us to places we've never been, and especially to places where we've never thought of going. Like most travel-lovers, I daydream constantly about visiting scores of different places, but I can ...The "Other Galapagos" Island
Two-hundred-and-fifty miles off the coast of Yemen, in the Indian Ocean, in an area pointed at by the Horn of Africa, is a rugged island called Socotra.
The number 250 has special significance in another respect: the island has been geologically separated from the mainland ...Word for the Travel Wise (09/19/06)
How I've managed to forget this wonderful travel site often loaded with photography from some lesser explored places - I do not know. TravelAdventures.org has an amazing photo set of Yemeni people, the Haraz Mountains, qat, and other Yemeni things. I'm going to bookmark this ...Photo of the Day (5/30/2006)
This photo made me do a double take when I came across it on the Gadling Flickr site. The incongruity of a surfboard and a Kalashnikov was just too much for my coffee-deprived mind to absorb this morning. But it is the real deal, and was taken by our good friend ...Chewing Qat in Yemen
A fascinating little video over at National Geographic.com takes
a look at the city of Muscat, Oman, where writer Bernice Notenboom and photographer Martin Hartleyo head out to
explore some of the ancient and extremely remote nooks of Yemen. Takes a while to load, but it's ...
