Mualla

Worth seeing in and around Mualla

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Cisterns of Tawila

   The Cisterns of Tawila, or the Tawila Tanks, is a historic site in Aden, Yemen designed to collect and store the rain that flows down from the Shamsan massif through Wadi Tawila, and to protect the city from periodic flooding. The site consists of a series of tanks of varying shape and capacity.

   3 km · historic site in Aden, Yemen · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Aidrus Mosque

   The Mosque of Abu Bakr al-'Aydarus or Aidrus Mosque is a Sufi mosque in Aidrus Street in Crater, Yemen. One of the principal mosques in Aden, it is named after Abu Bakr al-Aydarus, the wali of Aden.

   3.8 km · mosque in Crater, Aden, Yemen · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St. Francis of Assisi Church, Aden

   The St. Francis of Assisi Church or the Proto-Cathedral of St.

   2.9 km · church in Aden, Yemen · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Big Ben Aden

   Big Ben Aden is a clock tower built by British engineers, along with locals, beside Aden Harbour in Yemen during the period that Aden Province was a territory within the British Empire. It is superficially similar to the Elizabeth Tower, the famous clock tower attached to the Palace of Westminster in London.

   2.6 km · clock tower in Aden, Yemen · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mualla

Airports

Aden (ADE), 5 km · Djibouti-Ambouli (JIB), 244 km

Stations

Aden, 3.1 km · port of Aden, 2.8 km

• Sanaa → Mualla

  3213 km · quickest by air, 12h 3m · $1,070–1,630
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• Mukalla(Riyan) → Mualla

  3533 km · quickest by air, 11h 59m · $1,080–1,650
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• Seiyun → Mualla

  3379 km · quickest by air, 11h 47m · $1,060–1,620
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No local-transport research exists yet for Mualla

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mualla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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