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Address: Cannes, FR
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Amur Teibe means «All Good»
We are here to organize your lifetime trip to Socotra! Wild adventure with comfort. More than 1000 happy guest.

Standart, luxury and VIP tours- whenever you chose, you get best quality equipment and service on the island.

11/09/2026

The places are beautiful. The route matters. But in the end, the emotions are what people remember most.

For us, that is a big part of the job.

We take care of the logistics, the timing, the camps, the meals, the comfort and all the small details.

So our guests can simply enjoy Socotra.

Swim. Laugh. Explore. Meet people. Sit under the stars. Try something new. Forget the schedule for a while.

And when we see those real smiles, that excitement and that energy, we know we did it right.

That is what we want people to take home with them.

Not only photos.

A feeling.

Expedition to a New World.

SOCOTRA BY AMUR TEIBE
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05/09/2026

WANT ANOTHER 5 SOCOTRA FACTS TO SAVE FOR YOUR NEXT DINNER CONVERSATION?

Here comes Part II.
The more you learn about Socotra, the more unusual this island becomes.

1. A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER THAT SMELLS TERRIBLE

You may know it as Caralluma socotrana. Its currently accepted botanical name is Monolluma socotrana.
Its small, dark red flowers produce a strong unpleasant smell for a reason: the scent attracts flies, which help pollinate the plant.

Beautiful to look at. Much less impressive to smell. (Smells like 💩)

2. UP TO FOUR WIVES ARE ALLOWED, BUT ONE IS OFTEN THE NORM

Islamic tradition permits a man to have up to four wives, but this does not mean that every Socotri family practices polygamy.

In many traditional Socotri families, one wife is much more common. Marriage customs differ between families and communities, and divorce is possible as well.

Local family traditions are much more nuanced than many visitors expect.

3. SOCOTRA HAS ITS OWN CHAMELEON

Meet Chamaeleo monachus, the Socotra Chameleon.
It is endemic to Socotra, which means it naturally occurs nowhere else on Earth.

And because of its colors and ability to blend into its surroundings, it is surprisingly easy to walk straight past one.

4. NO BEARS. NO WOLVES. NO WILD BIG CATS.

For such a wild and mountainous island, Socotra has a surprisingly small number of terrestrial mammalian predators.

The two commonly recorded are the Lesser Indian civet, Viverricula indica, and the feral cat, Felis catus.
Even more unexpectedly, both are considered introduced rather than native Socotri predators.

So no, there is nothing large hiding in the mountains waiting for you.

5. EVEN SOCOTRA’S SNAILS ARE EXTRAORDINARY

Around 95% of the archipelago’s land-snail species are endemic.

That means almost all of them are found nowhere else on Earth.

Socotra’s biodiversity is so unusual that even the animals most people would never think about are part of what makes the island globally exceptional.

Part III is on the way.

Expedition to a New World.

SOCOTRA BY AMUR TEIBE
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04/09/2026

Want to be the person at dinner who knows something nobody else does? Save these 5 facts about Socotra.

Most people know Socotra for the Dragon Blood Tree, white dunes and surreal landscapes.

But the island is much stranger, deeper and more fascinating than that.

1. Socotra has its own language.
Soqotri is not a dialect of Arabic. It is a separate Modern South Arabian language, and Arabic speakers do not automatically understand it.

2. Hoq Cave is basically a 2,000-year-old travelers’ guestbook.
Ancient sailors and merchants left inscriptions inside the cave, including messages linked to travelers from India and other parts of the ancient Indian Ocean world.

3. Scientists are still describing new species on Socotra.
In 2025, new frankincense species were formally described here. The archipelago is now known to have 12 endemic Boswellia species.

4. Yes, there are old T-34 tanks on Socotra.
They are part of the island’s Cold War history and a reminder of South Yemen’s close relationship with the Soviet Union.

5. Socotra has a cucumber tree.
Its scientific name is Dendrosicyos socotranus. It belongs to the same botanical family as cucumbers, melons and pumpkins, but it grows as a real tree with a swollen trunk. Its fruits are not the cucumbers you know, and they are not normally eaten by people.

How many of these did you already know?

0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5?

Save this post if you like unusual facts.

And yes, there is definitely enough material for Part II.

Expedition to a New World.

SOCOTRA BY AMUR TEIBE
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02/09/2026

Choose your dates before the dates choose for you! Thinking about Socotra? Don’t think too long.

Flights for the new season are now open, and some dates are already showing zero availability.

There are only 2 direct flights per week to Socotra, with very limited number of seats for tourists, as locals travel too. Which means that once certain dates are gone, your travel options become much more limited.

If Socotra has been somewhere on your “one day” list, maybe this is the moment to turn “one day” into an actual date.

We still have availability for selected expeditions this season.

Expedition to a New World.

DM us for available dates and details.

📷 by Kristina Makeeva↟Kotleta↟Timon

SOCOTRA BY AMUR TEIBE
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28/08/2026

THE HISTORY OF SOCOTRA - PART II

By the Middle Ages, Socotra was surrounded not only by trade, but by stories.

13th century - Marco Polo

Socotra appears in The Travels of Marco Polo under the name Scotra.

He writes about Christians living on the island and mentions ambergris, one of the most valuable aromatic substances of the medieval world.

But the strangest part of his account is about magic.

Marco Polo claims that the people of Socotra were believed to influence the wind and the sea: calming storms, changing winds or creating rough waters.

And there is another question: Did Marco Polo actually visit Socotra himself?

We still do not know. His book combines personal experience with stories collected from sailors and merchants.

15th–16th centuries - Mahra and the Portuguese

By the late 15th century, Socotra was ruled by the Banu Afrar dynasty of the Mahra Sultanate.

In 1507, the Portuguese occupied the island, hoping to use it as a strategic base on the route to India.

The plan failed.

Supply problems, isolation and difficult conditions made the occupation hard to maintain, and by 1511 the Portuguese had left.

19th–20th centuries - Britain and modern Yemen

In the 19th century, Britain became increasingly interested in Socotra’s strategic position.

The island remained under the Mahra Sultanate, within the British protectorate system of southern Arabia, until 1967.

Socotra then became part of South Yemen.

1970s–1980s - Soviet connection

South Yemen developed close ties with the Soviet Union, which supplied military equipment, including T-34 tanks. Some were deployed on Socotra for coastal defense.

That is why abandoned Soviet tanks can still be seen on the island today — a striking reminder of its Cold War history.

In 1990, after the unification of North and South Yemen, Socotra became part of the Republic of Yemen.

Geographically isolated.
Historically connected.
Still unmistakably Socotra.

An Expedition to a New World.

SOCOTRA BY AMUR TEIBE
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27/08/2026

THE HISTORY OF SOCOTRA. PART I

Socotra may feel like an island that existed outside the world. Its early history tells a very different story.

Ancient legend - Alexander the Great

One of Socotra’s oldest legends connects the island with Alexander the Great. Later Yemeni traditions say Aristotle advised him to take interest in Socotra because of its famous aloe, and some versions claim Greeks were sent to cultivate it.

There is no historical proof this happened exactly as described, but the legend shows how highly Socotri aloe was valued.

1st century AD - Dioscorida

By the 1st century AD, Socotra appears in the Greek Periplus of the Erythraean Sea under the name Dioscorida.

The text places the island within Indian Ocean trade and describes links with Arabian, Indian and Greek merchants.

Socotra was known for valuable natural products including aloe, Dragon’s Blood resin and tortoiseshell, and it was connected to the wider incense trade of southern Arabia, including frankincense and myrrh.

Hoq Cave - an ancient guestbook

Inside Hoq Cave, archaeologists discovered inscriptions left by sailors and travelers from different parts of the Indian Ocean.

Some are nearly two thousand years old - real traces of people who reached Socotra long before modern maps.

6th century - Christian Socotra

By the 6th century, the Byzantine traveler Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote about a Christian community on the island connected with the Church of Persia.

Remote by geography.
Connected by history.

Expedition to a New World.

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24/08/2026

Socotra looks unreal. But where in the world is it? 🌍

Socotra is part of Yemen, but geographically it sits far away from the mainland, isolated in the Indian Ocean.

The island lies around 380 km from the Arabian Peninsula and stretches approximately 132 km from east to west.

That distance is an important part of its story.

For millions of years, Socotra developed in remarkable isolation. This helped create one of the most unusual natural environments on Earth.

Around 37% of its plant species are endemic - meaning they are found nowhere else in the world.

That includes some of the island’s most extraordinary plants, from the famous Dragon Blood Tree to the strange bottle-shaped desert rose.

So when Socotra looks like another planet, there is actually a geographical reason behind it.

It is remote.
It is isolated.
And it developed differently.

That is exactly what makes it so extraordinary.

Expedition to a New World.

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20/08/2026

We welcome new followers!
It is time for a little introduction: who actually stands behind Amur Teibe?

We are Axinia & Ahmed. And Amur Teibe is basically our baby.

The story started when Axinia (born in Russia, living in France for more than 20 years) came to Socotra as a traveler and met Ahmed (pure Socotri in countless generations from a very respected tribe).
We decided to open a travel agency with totally different approach: searching high quality tours and not cheap ones.
So we became business partners first… and then working hand by hand wasn’t enough, so we got married.

Our life is between worlds - France, Socotra, family, work, travel, endless messages, logistics and a lot of laughing in between. During the season, we spend a big part of our time on Socotra, welcoming guests and sharing the island we both love so much.

And yes, we take our work very seriously, definitely not ourselves. We love joking, laughing, dancing, cooking together and watching films.

What matters to us most is that people around are happy.
Our guests, our team, locals. We care about respect, good working conditions and also giving back to Socotra, its nature and its people.

Helping others has always been important to both of us. Ahmed was doing it long before we met, and so was Axinia.
Then we met, joined forces… and apparently it works ten times stronger.

People come to Socotra as our guests and leave as friends - with shining eyes, incredible stories, laughter and memories they will carry for a very long time.

So yes, Amur Teibe is a company.

But mostly, it is a family. Our team and two of us-building something we believe in, having a lot of fun along the way, and trying to leave a little bit of good behind wherever we can.

Axinia & Ahmed
Amur Teibe - Expedition to a New World.

SOCOTRA BY AMUR TEIBE
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17/08/2026

What can 8 days in Socotra look like?

A new landscape every day.
White dunes, turquoise lagoons, dragon blood tree forest, wild coastlines and places that hardly feel real.

One island. Eight days. A completely different world.

Expedition to a New World.

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14/08/2026

Not everything in Socotra is meant to be explained. Especially after dark.

Spend enough time on the island and sooner or later you begin hearing stories about ancestors, unexplained encounters and something Socotri people call jinniya - a female presence: frightening, dangerous and definitely not something you would want to meet.

And sometimes, something happens that makes those old stories feel less distant.

One evening, I was walking alone on Aomak Beach as it was getting dark. On the wet sand, I noticed enormous footprints. They looked human, only much larger than any normal foot.
And they were coming from the sea toward the land.
I had no camera. I simply stood there trying to understand what could have made them.
I still have no explanation.

Aomak has other stories too: palm leaves moving when there seems to be no wind, unexpected sounds and things that make you look twice.

Then there is Homhil.
One Chinese traveler we know didn’t believe the stories and insisted on spending the night there alone, although the local team refused to stay.
In the middle of the night, he came running back, saying that everything around him had started moving.
He never wanted to try again.

And Firmihin has a different kind of mystery.
Among the ancient Dragon Blood Trees, Socotri stories speak of ancestors and elders who lived there long ago. Some people describe seeing an elderly figure watching from a distance; others speak of an elder appearing as if to offer advice or a warning.

Legends? Imagination? Jinniya? Something else?

We don’t pretend to know.

But when the sun disappears, the island becomes silent and the Dragon Blood Trees fade into darkness…

Socotra feels different.

Perhaps some things are simply meant to remain unexplained.

An Expedition to a New World.

SOCOTRA BY AMUR TEIBE
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