Unexpected Socotra

Socotra: unspoiled, unexpected, unrevealed

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July 17th 2010
For some reasons I end up always travelling across islands. I am not choosing them. They are choosing me. For some reasons they end up being always on my path, and I have no other choice than taking them! Not that I have other plans anyway. I am not obsessed with islands( and besides, even if I would be, would I be conscious of it? obsessions are so often unconscious gifts of ... read more

Middle East » Yemen » Socotra

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North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern governm... ... read more