Sunday, February 6, 2011

Socotra Island's beautiful and bizarre landscape


Socotra
( Piotr Kot )
Isolated from continental land masses for 18 million years, Yemen's Socotra Island showcases an alien-like landscape with unusual plants and animals, such as the blood dragon tree, pictured, and desert rose. Its high degree of biodiversity has earned it the name the "Galápagos of the Indian Ocean."

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