Kuwait funds for community college and port site

Kuwaiti Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Sabah al Sabah along with Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi recently offered Yemen funds to start up a community college and port site on Socotra island.
More details can be found at Saba News and the Yemen Times.

Skip one this year...

Although no real SKP-expedition was planned at the beginning of this year, my wife and I were going to visit our Yemeni and Socotri friends, but unfortunately "destiny" changed these plans. Just calling Achmed by mobile phone these days to keep in touch and Inch Allah, next time action can be taken again...

Media news from Yemen...

That the historical importance of the Socotran Archipelago got neglected for centuries is no shocking news, but some recent messages are not providing true value for the new discoveries, try next Sana News info.

Socotra Yemen Heaven on Earth

This Yemeni video might be 1 year old, but stil more than ok.
If you want to dream away for the next 18min of travelling to the archipelago in the Arabian sea, just klick on play below!

Socotra: Yemen’s Exotic Secret book published

Another book about Socotra, but this time with a most interesting cover. The book, introduced by Abdul-Karim al-Iryani, Former Prime Minister of Yemen, invites the reader with his personal experience HERE.

Socotra just became a World Heritage Site !!!

Finally, after years of collective work of Yemeni Ministries, Governements and international University teams, NGO's, individuals and lot's of confincing scientific evidence... a big breakthrough... "Socotra is a part of the World Heritage Sites on this planet" (UNESCO)

We can only hope that this new achievement will give a boost to the conservation and sustainable development of the Island(s), ...as many caves are urgently in need of protection implementations!

For more details click here!

Time to update and inform all!

Dear readers,

After many changes on different levels, it's time to "revive" our Socotra Karst Project (SKP) informative blog. We just explored and mapped the longest cave of the Middle East (all details next month), presented the initial Dutch version of our expedition film: "Mystery Island" and started up the last run to finalize our Dbases. Just to mention that we're still alive!

First issue is an update of this blog, which can be seen as the "Hot News" of our website. The latter will be tackled later on.

Enjoy,
Peter