Seiyun and surroudings
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We had a busy time with our travels to Shibam, Seiyoun and Tarim in Wadi Hadhramaut, where we saw the famous mud-brick skyscrapers often dubbed the Chicago or Manhattan of the Middle East. This Shibam is not to be confused with the hilltop town that I've visited already.
We flew here as it would have taken a very long and uncomfortable trip through the desert by bus ... and we would have had to pay for military escort too ... no need to pay for that kind of excitement twice and we'd be requiring their services for the next excursion to Shihara.
The Wadi Hadramawt area is the ancestral home for many Arabs in South-East Asia. Some of those that went to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have made it back wealthy but others have chosen to settle there and marry the locals. Some of their descendents in Malaysia and Singapore now identify themselves as Malays rather than Arabs.
