Yemen Archives • Maverickbird

My Yemen experience on CNN

Recently I got interviewed by CNN on my experience of traveling as a solo woman in Yemen. The interview brought […]

The four islands group of Socotra are located around 217 nautical miles off the Yemeni coast and approximately 130 off […]

May 3, 2020

A visit to the Rock Palace of Wadi Dhahr happened all of a sudden. Post Bayt Bows day of unrest, […]

May 2, 2020

I stumbled upon Bayt Bows by chance. It was one of the my most intriguing journeys into the history of […]

May 1, 2020

Perched atop a rugged pinkish red plateau, Kawkaban literally means “two stars”. It is also called “the eagle nest” and […]

April 30, 2020

The most essential commodity in a semi arid region is water and that was what made Hababa so special. It […]

April 29, 2020

At the time of my Yemen visit, special permits were required to visit any place in and it the country […]

April 28, 2020

At the time of my visits, power cuts were a part and parcel of Yemeni life. In fact one of […]

April 27, 2020

The post landing formalities at Sanaa airport were very smooth. The single immigration window for non Yemeni passport holders was […]

April 26, 2020

At the time of my visit in 2016, Yemen was in the news for all the wrong reasons. The situation […]

April 25, 2020