I’m a fan of travel to strange places. I’m trying to find anyone who’s ever been to the island of Socotra (in the Indian Ocean) off the coast of Arabia. I searched the whole NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC index-the last time anyone wrote a story about going there was in 1924?
Anyway, has anyone been there, and what do you do when you get there?
I’ve never been there, but there was an article about the island in the March 1995 issue of “Geographical” which is a British magazine.
There was also an article in New Scientist July 29, 1995.
And, of course, you have read Vitaly V. Naumkin’s “Island of the Phoenix: An Ethnographic Study of the Peoples of Socotra” which was published in 1994.
Well, if you’re taking your wife, you better have her fitted for a veil! (Elmer says, assuming that Egkelly is A) male and B) married)
The islands are part of Yemen. I guess they are the Indian Ocean’s version of The Galapagos Islands. Apparently there is a small population on one of the islands that has a culture quite distinct from that of their neighbors. Check this UN site: http://www.unops.org/socotra2.html and then contact the Yemani consulate to see what sort of visa is required.
Thanks for the info! guess there’l be no cold beers or string bikinis on the beaches!
Still, might be woth a visit!