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Qalansiya is the second largest settlement on the island. From here you can go to Shuab Bay by boat.
Here you can meet many turtles crawling onto beach at night between June and July.
These beautiful beaches are accessible only by boat. It is not possible to get here by car.
Not far from the airport there is a nice beach which is especially beautiful at sunset.
Mumi Plateau is far away from standard tourist routes, but you can find very beautiful and unusual places here.
It is a nice sandy beach not far from a fishing village in the south of the island.
It is a beautiful place where you can start a trekking route to explore Mumi Plateau .
You can reach the largest freshwater pool of the island by walking for 2 hours from Matiaf village.
The village is located 5 kilometers from Hadiboh. Here is the old Sultan's mosque. This place is notable for wonderful views away from the tourist routes.
Almost all products are delivered to Socotra by sea.
This beautiful place has recently became available for visitors by a new road. Here you can have a good fishing and see dolphins very often. This beautiful beach can be reached by a boat from Erissel.
It is one of the best beaches on Socotra. If you come here at sunrise, you'll be rewarded by excellent photos.
Di Sebro is one of the most remote and pristine places of Socotra. It is a habitat of myrrh trees and a place for gathering excellent honey.
Darsa is an uninhabited island located to the south-west of Socotra.
Socotra video
Located 250 miles off the coast of Yemen, the tiny island of Socotra is usually overlooked by even the most adventurous of tourist hordes. But as NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Richard Engel discovers, the Arabian island's remote location has made it a capsule of antiquity with time-honored traditions not found elsewhere on the planet.
Wonderful views you can see from the edge of the plateau to the west of Socotra.
Probably everyone who looked at the mountains from Hadibo wanted to see what's out there, far away ...
Hadibo - the capital of Socotra - looks more like a rural village than a city. However, here you can find many interesting things.
New tourist signs installed on Socotra. Standard shot Laguna now looks like this.