Money... and new plans!

The government of Italy support Soqotra again, read all details here.
At the same time new ideas about developing Abdel Kuri Island arise, check it out!
Hopefully Soqotra will benefit from both, inch Allah.

Hamar an Nafur

One day you find yourself cirkeling around a steep limestone outcrop in the Indian ocean off the coast of Oman, called Hamar an Nafur, and what do you see?
A rather big population of Socotra Cormorants, what a coincidence?

The longest cave of Arabia on YOU TUBE

As media and technology are almost symbiotic these days, please do enjoy our explorations in the longest cave of Arabia filmed at new year 2007-2008 on YOU TUBE. Note that this cave is stil not revealing all its secrets, but we are getting very close!

President Saleh visits Socotra

President Saleh visits Socotra again.
For his emphasis on different subjects, do visit the Saba News site.

Spice it up!

Just to let you all know that this blog is still alive (and in need of some updating), you can enjoy one of the better cave movie intro's below, just to spice it up, but nothing to do with SKP:



As I'm currently working in Oman, some more nearby features in the KHOSHILAT MAQANDELI (Majlis Al Jinn)/MUQAL CAVE (The second largest chamber in the world):

Tuberculosis rose in Socotra

As the global economy is shaking these days, the poor are always hit first...
This is also the case for Socotra Island, were TBC rose 110% in 2008, mainly caused by malnutrition. More details on Saba News!

Big brother...

Just as you think you are all alone on an unspoiled island, you read stuff like this. Maybe we have to look up more from time to time and say "Hi" to big brother?