When you visit Yemen child-dreams become to a personal experience.

While I am unsure what my "child dreams," are or how something "becomes to a personal experience," I must say that the Web site I am visiting right now DOES make Yemen sound downright AWESOME!

Yemen!

And so, when a kindly person asks me to write of Tourism in Middle East Asia, I have to write of Yemen. I don't feel like I have a choice. We're talkin Yemen, people. Yemen is no joke. And so I bring you copy and paste with comment! YAY!

"Since ancient times Yemen has enchanted travelers, merchants, philosophers and kings with its secrets and its wealth.

This country in the south-west corner of the Arabian Peninsula fascinates every visitor* with the variety and the contrasts of the vegetation, landscape, the architecture and the people:

Gigantic** mountains with villages like fortresses on the top of the peaks

Picturesque urban settlements with houses of clay, bricks and stone

Deserts and fertile valleys, magnificent terraces and dreamlike*** beaches

Colorful markets with the sounds, fragrances, and faces from 1001 Nights****"


* I have not seen any official study that validates this as true. Throwing out sweeping generalizations without a source is a big no no, people of Yemen. I bet there was at least one person who left Yemen thinking to himself, "I have in no way been fascinated by a single thing I have seen here!"

** Gigantic? It means realy freakin big. Also, Gigantic is a documentary profiling the band They Might Be Giants. It was directed by A.J. Schnack and released in 2002. The DVD was released in 2003.

Check it out!

*** Here is this reference to my dreams again. Is Freddy Krueger inside my dreams, plotting to kill me and running this Web site? Pretty likely, I would say.

**** 1001 Nights. Arabian Nights. For most of us, known as Persian: هزار و یک شب Hezār-o Yek Šab, Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla, Turkish: Bin Bir Gece Masalları, Urdu:ایک اور ہزار راتین ولی کتب Hazar Aur Eik Ratein Wahli Kitab, Hebrew: אלף לילה ולילה), Bulgarian: Приказки от хиляда и една нощ (also know as "Sheheresada's stories" Приказки на Шехерезада

Or, for you people that aren't quite on my level, the thingamajig that brought us Aladdin. So, yes, Yemen is somehow responsible for "A Whole New World." But don't hold that against Yemen. Visit Yemen. Fulfill your child-dreams.


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Joel