Haraz Coffee Country, Yemen
Music by Dhafer Youssef, Cantus Lamentus Haraz coffee country is famous for the beauty of its landscapes and for its fortified villages clinging to nearly inaccessible rocky peaks. Each town is built like a castle; the houses themselves form the wall, equipped with one or two easily defensible doors. The mountain is divided into terraces of a few acres or more, separated by walls sometimes several meters high. Through out time the coffee growers kept a complete control on the coffee plants and its viable seeds. Foreigners were not allowed access to the Red Sea highlands plantations, and no viable seeds were allowed to leave the country. But around 1600 an indian pilgrim was able to smuggle seven beans back to Mysore by strapping them on his belly.
Music by Dhafer Youssef, Cantus Lamentus Haraz coffee country is famous for the beauty of its landscapes and for its fortified villages clinging to nearly inaccessible rocky peaks. Each town is built like a castle; the houses themselves form the wall, equipped with one or two easily defensible doors. The mountain is divided into terraces of a few acres or more, separated by walls sometimes several meters high. Through out time the coffee growers kept a complete control on the coffee plants and its viable seeds. Foreigners were not allowed access to the Red Sea highlands plantations, and no viable seeds were allowed to leave the country. But around 1600 an indian pilgrim was able to smuggle seven beans back to Mysore by strapping them on his belly.