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"Standard tour" programs updating

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:37:18 +0400

We have updated our “Standard tour” programs developed to show you the best sights of Socotra and Yemen. The programs are tailored for various categories of travellers.

The new tourist map of Socotra

Admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:54:45 +0400

The new tourist map of Socotra shows the most interesting places of the island

Training Photo-Tour to Socotra in October, 2010

Admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:07:12 +0400

Travel to Socotra with Yuri Afanasyev, a professional photographer, and get to know an exotic country and how to make great photos.

Shipwreck off the Samha coast

Julia Glazunova — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:34:57 +0400

Bandu Cyclone, which arose on 19 May off the Samalian coast, provoked a shipwreck off the Samha coast on 20 May. 23 seamen were rescued by NATO forces.

Heavy rains on Socotra

Admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:41:40 +0400

It has been pouring for almost a week on Socotra. Such rainy weather in May has not been for a long time.

Important discoveries of Russian archaeological expedition on Socotra

Admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:47:53 +0400

Preliminary Report of the Russian Interdisciplinary Mission to the Republic of Yemen submitted to the General Organisation of Antiquities and Museums (G.O.A.M.), Season 2009

Сhronology and fairy-tales of Socotra

Admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:59:08 +0400

New materials from Vladimir Agafonov - chronology of Socotra island and two Socotran fairy-tales, one of them you can listen to Socotri.

Socotra at "PhotoForum 2010"

Admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:33:13 +0400

At "PhotoForum 2010", the international photo-exhibition held in Moscow, SONY Company exhibited more than 20 posters of Socotra by Yuri Afanasiev, a professional photographer. More photos from exhibition...

Socotra Island is free of malaria

Dr.Saad Ahmed Alkaddoomi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:54:29 +0300

Socotra Island is the last paradise of our planet that declared eradication of malaria.

A new dive site in Di Tamerah

Fouad Naseeb — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:55:46 +0300

Fouad Naseeb, a dive-master of Socotra, has discovered a new dive site in Di Tamerah

Diving in Socotra on 13-20 March, 2010

Denis Romanov — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:24:13 +0300

We invite you to take part in the diving program on Socotra arranged for 13-20 March, 2010

Our Partner in Sanaa

master — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:18:37 +0300

Friendship-Group Travel Company is the official partner of our web-site in Yemen.

The site is under construction

Admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:01:17 +0300

The site is under construction. Will be available since January 2010.

Making a film about Socotra's old men

Admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:17:38 +0300

Early November Vladimir Melnik came again to Socotra to make a film about Socotra’s old men whose lifestyle pattern has not practically changed for the recent decades.

Kuwait Fund will finance construction of Socotra’s new port

Vladimir Agafonov — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:32:35 +0300

The government of the Republic of Yemen and the Kuwait Fund of Arabic economic development have signed an agreement on provision of Yemen with a loan in support of the Socotra’s new port construction project for value of 11,8 million Kuwaiti dinar (about 41 million USA dollars).

Russian Expedition: New Season

Vladimir Agafonov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:47:18 +0300

According to Yemen’s mass media, the Socotra Archipelago and Hadramaut Province are on the threshold of a new season to be opened by archeologists, linguists and ethnographers from Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science.

Socotra: Archeologic Sensation

Vladimir Agafonov — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:31:31 +0300

In November 2008 Russian archeologists discovered ancient stone tools on the Socotra Island. In view of the fact that scientists relate the things found to Oldowan (earlier spelled Olduwan or sometimes Oldawan), the first known tool complex in prehistory, this finding can be regarded as a worldwide archeologic sensation.