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The Yemenis have always built their villages with possible assaults and sieges in mind. Kawkaban is a perfect example of their capabilities to build invincible towns.
From San'a, it was a little over an hour's drive to reach Shibam, in the Al Mahwit province, not the more famous town with the same name in the Hadramawt region. Reaching Shibam means reaching a village built on the toes of a table mountain that dominates the surrounding area. Shibam is another example of a town built of stone houses, attractive in itself. Literally the crown on the town is the village of Kawkaban, built high above it on the edge of the mountain. It actually served as an escape refuge in times of trouble. As you walk towards the mountain and leave Shibam behind, the mountain rises always higher up above you and you see some houses apparently on the verge of falling down the edge of the table.
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