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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 7171337" data-attributes="member: 91140"> <img src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/alien_looking_places_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The second would be closer to the truth for this island, which is part of a  group of 4 islands, has been geographically isolated from mainland Africa for  the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands, this island is  teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which  are endemic, I.e. Found nowhere else on Earth.     <img src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/alien_looking_places_02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The climate is harsh, hot and dry, and yet - the most amazing plant life thrives  there. Situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen,  the wide sandy beaches rise to limestone plateaus full of caves (some 7  kilometers in length) and mountains up to 1525 meters high.   <img src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/alien_looking_places_03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Was the famous Chtulhu myths creator aware of these forbidding mountains with  their hauntingly weird flora (think of plant mutations from his "The Color out  of Space") ? We almost tempted to call Socotra the other "Mountains of Madness"  - the trees and plants of this island were preserved thru the long geological  isolation, some varieties being 20 million years old... <img src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/alien_looking_places_04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   The branches spread out into the sky and from below appear to hover over the  landscape like so many flying saucers... And from above they have a distinct  mushroom look: click here to read full countinue... <img src="http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/alien_looking_places_05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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