Travel Guide Hajja

After Kohlan, the road goes down to the Sharass parka, to tropical vegetation, where one can see a peculiar pagoda, and then go back to Hajja, in a green landscape where almost constantly a cascade and re-emergence river flows. We cross coffee, mango and banana plantations. The town of Hajja, 120 kilometres from Sana'a, owes its importance to its strategic situation, verrouillant the region. The Ottomans, from the first occupation of Yemen (1538-1636), built the Al-Qahirah citadel, which they made during their second occupation (1848-1918), the head of the administrative region of the same name. During these two periods, an important garrison was installed there. The Treaty of Da'an, in 1911, between the Sublime Door and Imam Yahya, handed over the region and the city under the control of the latter. During the reign of Imam Yahya, the Qahirah Citadel (to visit) was the place of detention of the elders of the tribal chiefs. Yahya thus kept the tribes under his power. In 1948, after Yahya's assassination, Imam Ahmed gathered the northern tribes in Hajja to avenge his father and regain power. The citadel was once again a prison, and many revolutionaries were executed there. Hajja is also a city for tourists who visit or return to the pilgrimage of Mecca. The very lively morning shop is to be seen. Below is the palace of the imam. You can't visit it, but the outside deserves a picture.