Camel's Salt caravan, in the mirage
<Series 19 : Camel's Salt caravan, in the mirage​​​​​​​​​​​​​​>
At 3:00 pm, the Danakil Desert temperatures exceeded 40 ° C, and the horizon had been shaken in the mirage. A dot appeared on the horizon and turned into a thick line, floating and moving. Its line had been gotten to be identified as many camels and donkeys, and eventually, to form a large-scaled camel's caravan leading up to Lake Asale.
Location: Lake Asale, Northeastern Ethiopia, February 2015
For more information:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karum
Equipment: Canon EOS 5D markⅢ; Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8l Ⅱ USM; Capture One 20; Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

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Said the man who leads a caravan.
"I don't want to do such a painful job, but I can't help it because I have no other job."
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A lot of plastic trash had been dumped along the road in Hamed Ela village. Every morning, many workers board a large truck cargo bed and work at a salt factory in the area. I heard that the salt carried by camel caravans is for livestock because it mixed sand. For households and souvenirs in Ethiopia, refined products from salt factories are distributed.

The men involved in the camel's salt caravan understand the value of the salt they collect and carry. They would understand, accept, and inherit the salt caravan that has been lasting for about a thousand years.

On the morning of leaving the village, a large truck carrying a lot of men ran through.
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Title:  To Afar Triangle in Ethiopia: one of the harshest places on Earth

A new adventure has begun; to meet the harshest nature on earth; to meet the lives of Ethiopian peoples living in the harshest places.


In 1974, several hundred pieces of fossilized human bones more than 3 million years old were found near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia, and it was found to be a female skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, and she was named "Lucy".  

The broad-leaved forests that provided fruits: Lucy's main foods, had decreased drastically with the advent of the Sahara Desert and the Great Rift Valley, which began forming about 10 million years ago; it was necessary to descend to the ground and move between the trees to obtain the fruits.

The Afar Triangle, or Afar Depression(as known as the Danakil Desert), located in northeastern Ethiopia, was said to be one of the harshest places on earth and was formed by the Great Rift Valley.  In the Danakil Desert, the lowest elevation is below -100m above sea level and the dry season temperature is close to 50°C; surprisingly, this is the place where the Afar peoples live, besides, this place is a region with extremely active uplift: the volcano Dallol, which has the crater in the lowest place in the world on land: the volcano Elta Are, which has a low-viscosity lava lake.
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