Indian cargo ship sinks off Yemen; Crew rescued

Yesterday an Indian cargo ship sunk before the coast of Socotra, read more details in Saba News

New book about Socotra out there soon!

Next months the book "The Lost World of Socotra" by Richard Boggs will be published by Stacey International.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Place Apart
Chapter 2: Frankincense
Chapter 3: People
Chapter 4: Culture
Chapter 5: Development
Chapter 6: Tourism
Bibliography
Index

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):