TAOUAHI

The port was called Steamer Point because the cruise liners, steam on the way to India, stopped there. It was also the favourite neighbourhood of the English. You can see, on the hill overlooking the port, some colonial houses the victorian whose floors with galleries overlook the sea. You should not miss out on the small replica of Big Ben, whose clock finally stopped during the events of 1986: for 11 days, two opposite factions of the Socialist Party, belonging to different tribes, wildly between- committed suicide here. Les Soviétiques were not spared and most of the Soviet colony south Yemen left after this fatal outburst of violence.