Diksam Plateau -- and met Sheba

 I think understand culture and what makes people tick to me is what is most exciting I would rather go home with a taxi driver and meet his family or live on a fishing boat with local than just about anything. Well this make Socotria paradise because you see it has at least three separate cultures and lifestyles.

The First culture and the one I really came to see, oldest and most unique it made up of the people that migrated here during the South Arabian Kingdom period like Sheba (as in the Queen of) and the language they speak is Soqotri. This group of are often called the Mountain Dweller. Soqotri is related to the most ancient languages spoken in the Arabian peninsula and is related to language of the kingdom of Sheba. It seems this place at the highlight of the shipment of frankincense, Dragon blood, and other incenses people settle here from Sheba and also the “Greeks” came in some number when the Alexander displaced the Persians as the rulers of the Middle East. The most remote area of the Island and the area where Soqotri is the most isolated still is the mountain dialects, in the range of ˆaghyer, and in Diksam. These regions are not easy to reach. The people are living in villages, moving around in the same area, depending on the season (rain, wind); sometimes, they are living temporarily in caves. They are shepherds and cultivate some date-palms. In the past, they collected the resin of Dragon's-blood. The contacts with the coast are occasional. Many of the Diksam Plateau people do not speak Arabic.