The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth

Some absolutely weird and wonderful trees that I would like to have in my garden! :blink:

Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it.

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.

Weird and Wonderful Trees?

What an interesting place :)

One of those looks like some underwater plant but instead it lives on the ground.

The link points to a blogger who obviously lifted all the images from another site about Socotra. How original of him. I saw the original site on Dark Roasted Blend on Sept. 3rd.

What an interesting place :)
I ate some mushrooms that looked like miniature versions of those trees once.

I had the most interesting day.