Another World on Socotra Island

Socotra is a tiny archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa, about 350 kilometers south of the Arabian peninsula. It is apparently one of the most remote land mass on the earth. Like the Galapagos Islands, this island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which are highly unique and found nowhere else on the earth. Socotra is home to more than 800 species of plants where the climate is harsh, hot and dry. Check the amazing glories of mother nature.

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4 Comments

  1. pch_kid
    Posted September 19, 2008 at 12:23 pm | Permalink

    DAMN THIS PLACE LOOKS LIKE SUMTHIN OUT OF A DR SEUSS WITH THOSE TREES LIKE THAT

  2. Posted September 19, 2008 at 3:56 pm | Permalink

    wow, that’d be a great place to shoot a crazy ass film

  3. bob
    Posted September 22, 2008 at 9:35 am | Permalink

    thank you Youssef for that stupid remark…

  4. digidigi
    Posted December 30, 2008 at 7:41 am | Permalink

    these trees as same as the normal ones but they sew up the opposite way of the normal. their seeds became into their branchs. funny.

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