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Arabia's Top 15
Shibam, Yemen
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From the cooling wind towers of Muharraq Island (
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in Bahrain to Saudi
watchtowers and the enigmatic towers of mountain burial in Bat (
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, Oman, the
architects of Arabia have for centuries favoured the vertical rather than the horizontal. If
the security situation allows, stroll the mud Manhattan of Yemen's fabled Hadramawt
(
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, clamber through the old quarter of the capital, Sana'a (
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, or visit just
about any village in southern Arabia to see where the trend for high-rise living came from.
