NAVY GOES TO SOCOTRA

Welcome to Socotra! Your tour guide will meet you at baggage claim to help you with your luggage and show you to your car. Don’t worry, the airport is very small, so everything is easy to find.

From the airport, you will go to have a traditional Socotri lunch with a lovely local family in Hadiboh, the capital city! After lunch, the adventure begins with the drive to beautiful Arher Beach.

An amazing second day will start before sunrise! A short hike will take you to the perfect place to see one of the most breathtaking sunrises of your life. Breakfast will be back at the campsite and you will get to choose between two experiences: go to Homhil protected area to see the infiniti pool or hike to Hoq cave.

Homhil pool is located in one the most attractive protected areas in Socotra. This area is also home to a versatile selection of Socotri trees including Boswellia, Desert Rose, the legendary Dragon Blood and many others. Wandering among these rare species and seeing the natural pool is an extroardinary journey.

Breakfast will be served on the beach. Once you finish eating, you will ride to Kilisan Wadi. It is home to the largest natural pool on the island and is surrounded by different endemic trees and white limestone cliffs. If you keep an eye out, you can also spot some colour-changing chameleons! You will be there until noon, so you will have all the time in the world to swim in the breathtaking wadi and jump from cliffs of different heights. Lunch will be served at the top of the cliffs.

After having an early breakfast, you will make a quick trip to explore Dagub cave: a cave of wet rocks where over time water droplets have made marvelous shapes throughout. Then it will be time to drive to higher ground...to a place like no other on Earth: Diksam plateau, the home of the legendary Dragon Blood trees!
You will ride through the national park where the alien-looking trees line the roadsides. Here, beauty is as

alive as the nature itself. Before heading up to the forest, you will make a stop at the deepest canyon on the island, Wadi Dirhur. Here palm trees grow at the bottom of the wadi and chunky Bottle Trees grow straight out of the towering canyon walls. It is a sight to behold!

After having breakfast in the

forest, you will leave the high central plateau behind and head to western Socotra. You will arrive first to an amazing village named Qalansiya, the second largest town on the island.

From here, you will take a short journey to Detwah Lagoon, a protected area home to puffer fish, stingrays, starfish, and even turtles. You will have all day to swim and explore the nearby white sand beach.

You will then have lunch in a beautiful cave with a local caveman who will then introduce you to the wonderful creatures of

the lagoon.

This morning is for sailing the waves! After another early breakfast, you head to Shoab beach, a ride that takes approximately 1.5 hours. You will likely see large pods of dolphins playing in the waves on our way. You will then have plenty of time to swim at Shoab beach before returning to the camp for lunch and relaxing.

The team will bid you farewell with a delicious breakfast, then drive you to the airport for your flight back to Abu Dhabi.