The island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean (11 photos) Bashny.Net

Socotra - a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. Because of its landscape island is called a unique place on earth, no other place to find.



Despite the harsh, hot and dry climate there is an amazing plant life thrives. Socotra Island is located 250 kilometers from Somalia and 340 from Yemen. Wide sandy beaches gradually move to the limestone plateau with many caves and mountains up to 1,525 meters



Title Socotra Sanskrit as Island of Happiness. And this is quite possible to agree - crazy botanical charm coexist here with silence, isolation and immense quiet beaches



Some of these plants and animals unique islands that are reserved natural insulation, and because some of them were kept in the same form as that of 20 million years ago. Let's start with dracena cinnibaris - tree called dragon's blood, a source of valuable resins for paints, lacquers, and medicine. Dragon's blood resin was also used in medieval ritual magic and alchemy