Hadibu

Back in the 20th century and earlier, Hadibo was called Tamarida ( English تمريدة ; English Tamarida ) ^{[3] [4]} .

• April 1608. The ship of the British East India Company first visits Socotra - the new capital of the island of Tamarida (Hadibo). The British merchant William Finch lives on the island for three months, his notes on Socotra have been preserved.
• August 1615. An English diplomat, Sir Thomas Row, visits Socotra.
• 1800. The Wahhabis briefly capture Socotra.

• 1834. Captain S. B. Haines (in 1839 he captured Aden and became his first British governor) from the navy of the East India Company on the research vessel "Palinurus" conducts a cartographic study of Socotra. In the same year, Sultan Amr bin Saad rejected the British proposal to transfer the island to them, and Socotra was captured by the Anglo-Indian naval assault forces of the East India Company. The British planned to build a coal station on Socotra for their ships. The conditions of the English garrison on the island as a result of the malaria epidemic were extremely difficult.
• 1839. After the capture of Aden, the British leave Socotra.
• January 23, 1876. The British signed an agreement with the Sultan of Kishn (the Sultan of Mahra and Socotra ).
• The beginning of 1880. Professor Isaac Bailey Balfour (1853-1922) from the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh conducts the first botanical expedition to Socotra for seven weeks, describing for the first time in European science its unique flora. More than 200 plant species new to science have been discovered ^[5] .
• 1881-1882. Expeditions of the German traveler Georg Schweinfurt to Socotra.

• April 23, 1886. Great Britain signs with the Sultan of Mahra and Socotra a treaty of British protectorate over his possessions. The Sultan was transported with honors from Kishn to Socotra, where his capital should now be under an agreement. In Tamarida (Hadibo) and Kalancia, the British flag was hoisted.

It is the largest city on the Socotra archipelago ; population - 8,545 people according to the 2004 census ^[2] . Rather similar to an urban-type settlement ^[1] . In fact, it is a large village ^[6] .

There are no roads as such, especially architecture. ^[6] In Hadibo, only a couple of streets are covered with asphalt, the rest are rocky primers. ^[1] Sightseeing in Hadibo is also not found, so half an hour is enough to walk along the dirty streets and get an idea of ​​this place. ^[6] Low buildings, but there are three-story houses and a mosque. ^[7]

The hotel business in Socotra, including Hadibo, is not developed. Hadibo and Calancia are two cities on Socotra where you can find a hotel. ^{[1] [7]}

The local restaurant does not pull at the title of restaurant at all, - it reminds a food service in the old days somewhere on the outskirts of the USSR. As of October 2013, the restaurant has disposable tablecloths, disposable tableware (and maybe many times used disposable tableware), and leisurely waiters. Tables are both inside and outside. Almost no one speaks English - you have to explain with gestures, including staff and cooks at a local restaurant. ^{[1] [7]}

Garbage is everywhere, including 30 meters from the hotel entrance. Vultures and goats gladly absorb trash. ^[one]

If you walk a little deeper into the streets, you can get to the local market, located on one of the main streets. In Hadibo, you can buy almost everything on the market: from mineral water to non-alcoholic beer and from chewing gum to meat. You can buy vegetables, fruits. Moreover, cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, oranges - all at the same price. By the way, you need to go for meat in the morning. In the butcher shop you can choose both ready-made freshly prepared meat, and a whole kid or lamb. Skulls of goats are hung throughout the restaurant. They cut animals right there in the market. There is no alcohol, because it is strictly prohibited - Islam is the same. ^{[1] [2] [7]}

There are only three or four gas stations for cars on Socotra, and not all gas stations may have gas available at the right time ^[7] . Abandoned old cars in the city center are a common sight in Hadibo, but perhaps all the auto-junk belongs to someone ^[1] .

Photographing everything in a row is highly discouraged; you need to ask the permission of the locals to capture them in the frame, otherwise you can get a stone in the forehead. Women are forbidden to take pictures in the same way as in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, and indeed throughout Yemen. Someone likes to be photographed and crawls into the frame, while someone protests on the contrary and demands to remove the camera, thinking that the camera is stealing their soul ^[1] .

There are many immigrants from the African continent in Hadibo: from neighboring Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. They are the most ardent opponents of photographing ^[1] .

Football is one of the local's favorite pastimes ^[1] .

For residents of the city, livestock is the main source of income. ^[2]

Of all the climatic zones of the island of Socotra, the northern and southern plains of the island are least suitable for cattle grazing: there are few pastures, poor vegetation cover, and groundwater lies deep. Only on the Northern coastal plain there are areas densely covered with miter and shikeytom . The exception is the small plain ( enclave ) of Habido, where the city of Habido is located. The Habido plain is abundantly irrigated by streams of water flowing from the Hagher mountains. ^[eight]

The most numerous subgroup, as of 1960-1970, and it seems today too, were the inhabitants of the Northern coastal plain. Far fewer people lived in 1960-1970 on the sandy southern coastal plain in Nouged. ^[eight]

Despite the adverse conditions, the inhabitants of Habido were engaged and are engaged in cattle breeding. They breed mainly goats. Cows were rarely found in 1960-1970 in Hadibo, in the villages of this plain in the hills lying south of the plain. Today, there are cows among the inhabitants of the village of Kedha, not far from the side of the plain from Habido, belonging to the Seyudes of Abu b Acre. So, one of them owned 10 cows, a camel, several dozen goats. ^[eight]

The garbage thrown out into the street is gladly absorbed by vultures and goats. Goats in Yemen is a separate conversation. Each village has fields enclosed by a low stone fence. In these fields, special low shrubs are grown that gnaw the goats. The goats in Khadibo are like mutants — they chew with pleasure plastic bags and cardboard from landfills, jump onto the table, and try to mix up the leftovers left over from dinner in a restaurant. How do not die is not clear. In general, goats are there instead of cats and dogs, like pets. ^{[1] [7]}

In small areas in the courtyard of the house, 1960–1970, residents of Hadibo cultivated vegetables exclusively to meet their own needs. Only occasionally could one meet a person selling onions or tomatoes. In the 1980s, only in one place on the island of Socotra, in the eastern part of Nougeda (the southern plain of the island), where there is enough fresh water, watermelons were grown for sale. Today, vegetables are also grown for sale, but in very small quantities. Today, sea and air communications have well connected the island of Socotra with other parts of Yemen, primarily by sea connection with Hadramaut through the port city of al-Mukalla, closest to Socotra, and the airline with Sanaa . Now the market always has fresh fruits and vegetables brought from the mainland ^[8] .