Significantly bigger than California and more than twice the size of the United Kingdom and this wedge of a country of 24 million on the Arabian Sea and running along the southeast corner of the Arabian Peninsula is troubled, to say the least
Put together by UNESCO, here's a presentation of the World Heritage ancient quarter - dating back some 2,500 years - of Yemen's capital and largest city. Pretty impressive, I must say.
One of nature's more dramatic flora, the dragon's blood tree is endemic to Yemen's Socotra archipelago, and named for its dark-red sap. And while Socotra has managed to remain largely insulated from the brutal fighting in the rest of Yemen, these da