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The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth
| Quote From Source: | Imagine waking up on the Socotra Island and taking a good look around you (let's say your buddies pulled a prank on you and delivered you there, and lets also assume that you don't have any hangover from abuse of any substances). After a yelp of disbelief, you'd be inclined to think you were transported to another planet - or traveled to another era of Earth's history.
The second would be closer to the truth for this island, which is part of a group of 4 islands, has been geographically isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands, this island 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.
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| Quote From Source: | The climate is harsh, hot and dry, and yet - the most amazing plant life thrives there. Situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen, the wide sandy beaches rise to limestone plateaus full of caves (some 7 kilometers in length) and mountains up to 1525 meters high.
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interesting...I've seen some of those pictures before but didn't know where they were from.
Other alien looking places on earth are:
Iceland
Antarctica
Interior China (especially the Taklamakan desert).
Algeria
Peru
SW Bolivia
I"m sure there's more but those are just a few from a little looking around I did.
"The rain it raineth every day, and every night also -- week in and week out, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, there is nothing but rain, rain, rain, 'The windows of heaven are opened up.' Pluvius, grieved at some earth-giving wrong, weeps as if he never would dry up." - Overland Press (Olympia, WA), December 1861 |
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MountainManMike
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looks straight out of Dr. Seuss. |
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chrisisasavage
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no kidding! |
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MountainManMike
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i bet if u look back at his travel records, he visited there at some point before he started writing...or maybe he just saw some pics of it. |
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