Introducing Al-Mahwit
The bustling market town of Al-Mahwit is the largest of the mountain towns to the west of the capital, but it has little to offer the traveller bar the beautiful 125km journey from San’a. Al-Mahwit lies in the centre of some of the most fertile country in Yemen and the road from San’a takes you past numerous fruit, coffee, tobacco and qat fields.
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Like At-Tawila, Al-Mahwit was once an important coffee-collecting centre, as well as an administrative town during the 16th-century Ottoman rule.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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Proposed Itinerary
by ViktorVaughn 17 June 2007
Hello,
I am planning a trip to Yemen in August for 3 weeks. As it will be my first time, I was wondering if somebody…
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