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The Yemeni town of Qalansiyah is an isolated town on the western tip of the island of Socotra. Because of Socotra’s remoteness, a high number of plants and animals can be found only there.

There are a lot of options for your first flight. You can choose from Cairo International Airport in Egypt, Dubai International Airport or Abu Dhabi International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, Doha International Airport in Qatar, Bahrain International Airport in Bahrain, Charles de Gaulle Airport in France, Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Italy, Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait, Frankfurt Airport in Germany or Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Turkey.

From your first stop, you will get on a flight to Sana’a, Yemen. Depending on where you transfer through, this could be a flight that lasts just about an hour or several hours.

From Sana’a, take a flight across the Gulf of Aden to the Socotra Airport. This airport is the only way on or off the island without a boat.

Once on the Island, hire a driver for the trip to Qalansiyah. The drive from the airport to the remote village is about an hour in length, but, be advised, Socotra is known as a hide out for pirates and other dangerous folks.

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We have touched on this topic a lot on Lucid Practice. In my opinion, this opinion-based judgement never gets old.

Tynan, gives his response on “What’s the point of traveling.“

I began really traveling due to panic, which may not have been the best reason to go. I had always thought of myself as the type of person who would travel the world, but at twenty-six, I had gone to only a handful of countries, and had never even been to Europe. Realizing that other people my age were traveling a lot, and I wasn’t, I sold everything and left with my friend Todd.

That first trip lasted nine months and fundamentally changed how I thought of travel. I set out in search of adventure and the title of “person who travels”, but I got a lot more out of it.

When you stay in your home country, it’s easy to completely avoid thinking of life beyond its borders. The way things were in America, I figured, was pretty much the way they were everywhere. Typical vacation travel also reinforces this view, because it hides the grit of every destination and serves up a sanitized version that largely reflects the country from which the vacationers came. In the worst cases, only a small injection of caricatured culture makes its way through the walls of the resort.

Real travel exposes the traveler to the details of life that compose the atmosphere of that country. Through that experience, one can begin to understand what life is actually like for the residents. You learn not only how they think and act differently, but why.

To see life from these different perspectives is to see the world in three dimensions. A contrast is provided against how you’ve always thought about and done things, which gives you the opportunity to examine those things.

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