Thousands of years of islands Eat seafood as you like, don't take saplings, and protect the natural environment
Can you believe that on a certain planet, a certain region has been separated from the land for thousands of years due to tectonic plate changes, giving birth to many strange creatures, how incredible is this?In fact, the Yemeni island of Socotra is such a "treasure" place, even one of the four ancient civilizations such as ancient India and ancient Egypt, will land on the island and plunder at all costs.
The East China Sea, halfway between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, at the mouth of the East China Sea in the Gulf of Aden, is a land crust with a history of 600 to 18,000 years, and is a very rare non-volcanic island. Socotra is an island covering an area of more than 4,000 square kilometers, and its main island is mostly mountainous and hilly, and although the environment is harsh, it is also an excellent habitat for rare animals such as seagulls.
Yemen's national statistics office announced in 2016 that Socotra has 44,000 Arab inhabitants, however, they have found more than 250 historical sites, with Indian scripts, Greek steles, and Sanskrit motifs. According to 13 years of research by dozens of United Nations experts, there are many precious species on Socotra, mainly gentian, dracaena, civet, ambergris and milk fat. In ancient times, the ancient Indians called it "Happiness Island", and they often landed on the island to collect precious and rare animals.
At the height of the Egyptian dynasty, the pharaohs of Egypt sent many people to collect milk fat used to make dried corpses, which is why many people sold milk balm to other countries, so that the milk balm was almost extinct, and the value of milk balm even exceeded gold. In the 13th century, the famous Greek herbalist Gruedes (like Li Shizhen, a famous figure) came here, stayed here for six months, and finally reluctantly left, he described Socotra a lot in his book, and named it "Herb Market", which made the kings of other countries want to go to the island again to search for it.
After the 16th century, Portugal invaded Socotra as part of its territory as a supplementary island for ships, and then the British used it as a key military center in the Indian Ocean until 1967, when the Sultanate dissolved and became part of Yemen. The fact that Socotra was a Soviet naval base in the Middle East and that Somali pirates occupied in 2011 to store fuel was a disaster.
With Socotra being listed as a World Heritage Site and providing a lot of educational and medical help, the island finally entered a period of prosperity, with the most populous Hadiboo town establishing an airport on the land and being known for its seafood, spices, dragon's blood, milk and other products.
Interestingly, the WHO was surprised to note that the people of this island nation have a Y-chromosome haplotype that is unique in the world. Even the United States sent an archaeologist to conduct an in-depth study of Socotra.
Although Socotra is a good tourist destination and is not too polluted, many people are reluctant to come here due to the war in Yemen and the rampant piracy in Somalia, so the income and quality of life of its residents are somewhat worse than Yemen. The most profitable fishermen don't need to go to sea at all, they only need a net on the beach to catch enough seafood, but because it is more than 200 kilometers away from Yemen, the seafood is very cheap.
Intrepid visitors can enjoy a delicious meal, and the local Arabs, who rarely interact with foreigners, are also innocent, and they can buy a variety of seafood and lobster for a fee. I propose to go out to sea with a fisherman, and not only can I feel the joy of catching fish with a fishing net, but I can also enjoy a seafood meal that doesn't cost money.
Here, people can play to their heart's content, and only some wild animals will be harmed, due to the early years of colonization and raiding, a large number of dracaena trees have been endangered, so the locals cherish them very much. If you pull out the saplings without permission, you will be beaten......