Cavers find snakes but no genies in Yemen's 'Well of Hell'
Dubai (AFP) Sept 22, 2021
A team of Omani cavers has made what is believed to be the first descent to the bottom of Yemen's fabled Well of Barhout - a natural wonder shunned by many locals, who believe it is a prison for genies. The forbidding 'Well of Hell', whose dark, round aperture creates a 30-metre (100 foot) wide hole in the desert floor of Yemen's eastern province of Al-Mahra, plunges approximately 112 metre