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...curio sellers and cafés of Beijing's antiques district. After the show, buy a souvenir puppet and squeeze in a little shopping in the Liulichang Road pedestrian zone. Information: 29 Dong Liulichang Road, Xuanwu. $6. Puppets from $4. Reservations recommended; tel: (86-135) 6303 6667 Dubai: Wild Wadi At this Arabian Nights-themed water park, Western teenagers in bikinis and Arab girls in modest swimwear enjoy simulated white-water rapids, tidal waves and underground rivers. The brave shoot down the Jumeirah Sceirah water slide at 80 km/h. Information: Western shore of Persian Gulf, near Burj al Arab...
...valley known as Wadi Dhahr, with its orange cliffs and lush orchards a few miles from the mountaintop capital of Sana'a, is one of Yemen's most stunning landscapes. As usual, last Friday it was alive with the sounds of a Yemeni wedding celebration. A circle of turbaned men danced to a frenzied drumbeat, brandishing their silver swords and daggers. Suddenly a jubilant member of the wedding party pulled out a Kalashnikov and fired into the air, a practice common during Yemeni celebrations. What happened next was anything but customary. To the astonishment of those gathered, within minutes policemen...
...counterterrorism. But last week Yemeni officials felt compelled to loudly deny press reports that the 800 U.S. troops amassed in nearby Djibouti might eventually be deployed in Yemen. Saleh's campaign is popular with many Yemenis, but they draw the line at the presence of foreign troops. At the Wadi Dhahr wedding ceremony, Ahmed Saeed, a retired army officer who carried his 8-month-old grandson on his shoulders, was pleased when the police took away the reveler who had opened fire. "We have the greatest President, who wants us to feel safe and secure," he said...
DUNE FORCE Spend enough time in Wadi Rum, a desolate and spellbinding valley of rocks and rolling sands stretching 130 kilometers through the southern desert, and you're bound to come across the Desert Police?Jordan's sandblasted law enforcers. Dressed in ceremonial khaki galabias and armed with silver-sheathed knives and Smith & Wesson guns, their camelback patrols are often regarded as little more than an example of Jordan's p.r. machine cranked into full effect. True, on a day-to-day basis, rescuing lost tourists is their primary duty, and most desert policemen are more than happy to pose...
...TAKE A DIVE After all that sand in Wadi Rum, there's nothing better than a dip in the emerald waters of the Red Sea. And, for scuba or snorkeling fans, the Royal Diving Club in the resort area of Aqaba is the perfect place to combine a quick swim with a chance to spot lionfish, snappers and barracuda in the wreck of the container ship Cedar Bride, which lies 20 meters deep in the warm waters off Rainbow Reef. Read more details at www.jptd.com.jo...