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  • Dec. 22, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. Football players prepare to start a game near Hadibo. Football is a popular sport on the island, most villages have a team and tournaments are regularly organised. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 23, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. A shop along the main road on the northern side of Socotra. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 23, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. A fisherman prepares his nets on the beach near Hadibo the main city on the island.  The island has around 50,000 inhabitants. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 24, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. Fathi on a boat crossing the Detwah Lagon. Fathi helps his mother cook and gives tours to visitors around the lagon. Socotra draws very few tourists, the last few years Socotra as averaged about 3000 tourists a year, with a fall in 2014 due to political instability on the main land. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 24, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. Fathi walks across rocks on the edge of Detwah Lagon. During the tourist season, Fathi helps his mother cook and gives tours to visitors around the lagon. Socotra draws very few tourists, the last few years Socotra as averaged about 3000 tourists a year, with a fall in 2014 due to political instability on the main land. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 24, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. Fakhri watches TV in his mother's hut in Detwah Lagon. Fakhri helps his mother, Sadiya, serve food to visitors to Detwah.  © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 25, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. A house in Neet. More then 600 villages varying in size are spread across the island.  © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 25, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. Children stand in a doorway in Neet on the southern coast of the island. The houses are traditionally built with a big family court yard. Male guests will generally enter by a side door to a dedicated room for men. The family area is only accessible to family members and women. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 25, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. Saad brings food to guests in his home in Neet. A traditional festive meal will start with a glass of warm broth,with the bones of a goat, the main meal is goat meat and rice, for desert a cup of red tea. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 25, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. A fisherman sorts out a boat after coming back from fishing in Neet. Fishing is a stable source of income for many of the people of Socotra. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 26, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. Dragon's Blood Tree on Dixsam platau. The tree is unique to the island and only found  on it's plateaus, it got it's name from its red resin which traders believed was real dragon's blood, and had medicinal properties. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 25, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. A young boy looks out to the mountains in Neet.  The island's plant life is under threat from human encroachment, and non-native animals and plants. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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  • Dec. 26, 2014 - Socotra, Yemen. A young boy drives a 4x4 up to the Dixam Plateau. There are very few cars and minibuses on the island, and most people travel by hitchhiking. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom
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