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?

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!