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Al-Hajarayn Village

Impressive village of Al-Hajarayn, clambering up the side of a cliff and is among the oldest villages in the region

Hadhramaut, Yemen

Coordinates: 15.490200, 48.337700

Nearby Places

Hadhramaut is Yemen’s largest governorate, home to the massive Wadi Hadhramaut that is home to countless wadis extending off of it, the world’s finest honey, the first mud skyscrapers in Shibam, a historic Sufi center of learning and that’s just scraping the surface. Al-Hajarayn is one of many villages located in Wadi Hadhramaut.

Image Sources

By UK Air Ministry (1929) – The Geographical Journal (U.K.), Vol. 77, No. 3 (Mar., 1931), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46254972

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By TastyCakes at English Wikipedia – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22598551

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By Ljuba brank – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47156090

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