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Mukalla
City in Hadramaut, Yemen

Mukalla

Mukalla, officially the Mukalla City District, is a seaport and the capital city district of Yemen's largest governorate, Hadhramaut.

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The city is in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Aden, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, about 480 kilometres east of Aden.

Get in

Getting to Mukalla

National carrier Yemenia operates a few domestic flights to Mukalla.

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    Riyan Mukalla International Airport
See

Worth seeing

The old historic city core, located on a small peninsula, has many small alleyways worth exploring.

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    Fort Al-Ghwayzi

    Built on the foot of a rock and designed to protect the city from Bedouin attacks, this historic fortress dates back to 1716 when the sultans of the Emirate of Al-Kassad ruled the Hadhramaut area.

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    Qu'aiti

    A former royal palace, now turned into a regional museum.

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    Sik'kat Yaqoub
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    Khor
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    Omar Mosque
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    Al-Rawdah Mosque
Do

Things to do

Nearby are Hadhramaut Mountains, such as Husn Ghuraf.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.