Alien Island

Check out this amazing place off the coast of Africa called Socotra. It consists of a main Island, 3 smaller ones and some rocky outcrops. It's situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen. It has been isolated from the mainland of Africa for 6 to 7 million years allowing for some very unique plant evolution. Like the Galapagos Islands, Socotra 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), making this one of the most alien-like places on Earth. I'm going!!!

What's odd to me is that the indiginous folk look more South American that African. Beautiful, but weird.