The Qat House's by jorgesanchez

Sanaa - Yemen In this tent men come together to masticate Qat. It reminded me the Opium secret places in China. For your information, chewing Qat in Arabia, Jordan and other strict Muslim countries is penalized with seven years imprisonment, but in Djibouti, Somalia and Yemen, is free.

Uploaded: Dec, 17 2007 | Taken: Nov, 01 2007| Viewed: 35 times  | 5 votes

adampl - Dec, 17 2007 07:12pm Jorge, thanks for a handful of info that is new to me. The greatest value of this photo is that it shows local culture and the way of life. davidx - Dec, 18 2007 12:12pm Jorge - I agree with Adam. This photo accompanied by your comment, is a real eye-opener. jorgesanchez - Dec, 18 2007 01:12pm Adam/David, I am glad that you appreciated the comments in this picture regarding the local customs of the Yemeni people, which is exactly what I was trying to convey, rather than the quality of the picture in itself. I took it surreptitiously and the men who saw me were not happy, therefore I took only one and did not risk for more. Imagine that a Chinese traveller enters in the casino of Monte Carlo with a small photo apparatus camouflaged in one of his shoes, or in the middle of his wig, like a 007 secret agent, and takes some furtive pictures of the players… It is good that the comments length in the pictures have been increased up to 1000 words, allowing us thus to interchange such relatively long commentaries.