Yemen's Minister of Tourism, Moammar Al Erynani yesterday said Socotra island will become a tourist destination. He told the Yemeni news agency that the government is working to overcome all ...

With just a handful of tourists a year, Socotra is regarded as the world’s last remaining unspoilt spots – but a visit there doesn’t come without its risks. Getting to the idyllic island isn’t easy – ...

Socotra. The name conjures images of the exotic and unknown, an island paradise, with breathtaking beaches and a truly alien landscape. With high granite mountains, deep valleys, frankincense trees, ...

Made up of enormous sand dunes, craggy mountains, beautiful beaches and unique wildlife, the Yemeni island of Socotra is often referred to as the “Galapagos of the Indian Ocean.” Long a coveted ...

On the other side of the world, in the middle of another ocean, lies a second Galapagos: the remote island of Socotra where more than one third of the 800 or so local plant species are found nowhere ...

The Yemeni island of Socotra is a strange kind of paradise, a place where unique plants burst from its sandy shores unlike any seen elsewhere on earth. And although the images of this alien landscape ...

RIYADH 22nd January 2016 (WAM) --- Yemen's Minister of Tourism Moammar Al Erynani today said Socotra island will become a tourist destination. He told the Yemeni news agency that the government is ...

Lying in the Indian Ocean some 200 kilometres (120 miles) off the Yemeni coast, the four islands and two rocky islets are home to some 50,000 people and have remained relatively untouched by the war ...

So there I was, lying on my back in a bikini on a deserted white-sand beach in Yemen, squinting into the shimmering turquoise sea to the west, wondering if I could make out Somalia from here. I couldn ...

In November 2012, IUCN conducted a mission in follow up to the property’s inscription on the World Heritage List in 2008 (Decision 32 COM 8B.5), and assessed the progress achieved by the State Party ...