Quality holidays on Socotra with SOCOTRA TAMAM
There are many spelling variants of the name of the Island.
Socotra suffers great losses from goats.
The south coast of the Indian Ocean is one of the places worth staying for overnight. You can do that in the Aomak camping.
We highly recommend you to visit Socotra’s museum where you will be able to see how locals make a fire by friction.
A small fresh water stream in Archer is a habitat of a big colony of eels.
Dragon tree's resin, you can buy on the Island, has strong antiseptic and immunostimulating properties.
Socotra’s foothill gorges harbor dozens of grottos and caves. One feels here like being in a fairytale country!
Guido Adler was the first one in studying Socotran folk music.
Hadiboh is the dirtiest place of Socotra. It is hardly understandable why people settled down here. There are often rainy and sunless days. A rivulet flowing through the city is a perfect setting for the nurturing of mosquitoes that bother people at night. The city is overwhelmed by rubbish eaten up by ubiquitous goats, who also often steal food from tables in restaurants.
If you want to see a montane Socotrans’ way of living we would recommend you to visit Skand mountain area.
You can leave your car on the road and take a walk into the depth of sands. If you come here before a sunset, a soft evening lighting will make this place to look much more beautiful.
Hoq cave is relative easily accessible. It takes one hour and a half to climb to its entrance from the village. You will need to take a local guide. The route is not difficult, but tiresome.
It takes only half an hour to get to Delisha beach from Hadiboh. Tourists usually come here directly from the airport to have a swim and to walk along a big sand-dune.
Homhil Plateau attracts tourists primarily by a combination of various kinds of trees growing at one place.
You can get to Shuab Bay by boat from Qalansiyah village. In an hour and a half you will appear in a marvelous place of Socotra far from civilization.
Detwah Lagoon is definitely one of the most impressive places on the island coast. There is a camping site where you can stay for the night.
A network of Socotra’s asphaltic roads continues expanding.
Many Socotra’s old canoes made of African species of wood are in a quite a good state.