Danakil Desert

We sometimes pushed 4WD stuck in the ocher sand, finally passing through the desert, and then a rugged lava plateau appeared to block our car. After all, we could arrive at the base camp of the Erta Ale volcano at around 3 pm.

Danakil Desert
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Upon waking up at 6 am, the local guide had already gone to a meeting with the Afar peoples who administer Erta Ale, seeking permission to enter Erta Ale. 
It was after 10 am that we joined the guide and left the lodge. By today's schedule, we had to drive about 100km towards the direction of the northwest on the Danakil desert and to reach the base camp of Erta Ale volcano by sunset.
Location:　Afar Region, Northeastern Ethiopia, February 2015
For more information:​​​​​​​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danakil_Desert
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We rented their hut for lunch. A young Afar couple came to us. His teeth were pointed, as a adult man of Afar peoples would.
Instead of payment renting a hut, we transported supplies to a village on the way to Erta Ale and bought two goats for food of the base camp.
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The Danakil Desert, this area is known for its volcanoes and extreme heat, with daytime temperatures surpassing 50 °C.  Less than an inch of rainfall occurs each year. The Danakil Desert is one of the lowest and hottest places on Earth. It is inhabited by the Afar people, who engage in salt mining.             - Wikipedia -
We sometimes pushed 4WD stuck in the ocher sand, finally passing through the desert, and then a rugged lava plateau appeared to block our car. 
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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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