TAOUAHI

The port was called Steamer Point because the steamers, the steam liners on the road for India, went there. It was also the favorite neighborhood of the English. On the hill overlooking the harbour, there are a few colonial houses in Victorian style whose galleries give rise to the sea. We have to take a look at the small replica of Big Ben, whose clock finally stopped during the events of 1986: for 11 days, two opposing factions of the Socialist Party, belonging to two different tribes, were savagely killed here. The Soviets were not spared and much of the Soviet colony left South Yemen after this deadly outbreak of Violence.