The strange village is built on a 150m high rock block

The small village of Haid Al-Jazil in Yemen is built on a precarious rock and looking at it, many people will think this is like a scene from a fantasy movie.

If you like quaint villages, if you like the feeling of being in another world, then Haid Al-Jazil village in Yemen is the perfect place for you.

Located in Yemen, the village of Haid Al-Jazil "dwells" on a rock formation 150 meters above the Wadi Hadramaout valley. There are houses built from mud bricks of the same color as the surrounding natural scenery. Dry bricks can withstand the sun for almost 250 years without ever falling apart or damaged.

The village is located on a large rock in Yemen.

Since wood is so scarce in this region, bricks are made from dry clay and then mixed with corn straw, molded into bricks. After many hours, the bricks are hard enough to build houses and other structures.

In Yemen, the problem of water shortage is very serious and it is a reality that people have to deal with every day. The construction of houses on high, using raw materials of the allows people to store rain water for use.

The landscape around these areas is often large deserts and this means that resources are limited. Therefore, building a house requires a bit of creativity. Each house in the village consists of mud bricks with wooden floors separating one floor from another, and buildings made of earth are often attached to rudimentary mud huts.

The village scene is like in a fantasy movie.

The village of Haid al-Jazil is inhabited by only about 17 people, according to the 2004 census. The area has no rivers or lakes, only canals known as wadis that fill with water at certain times of the year. . Haid Al-Jazil village is located above the canals to catch the rains in summer.