Epilogue: Afar Triangle

I met a young girl and her family in a roadside savanna shortly after landing in the Danakil lowlands. She lived in a traditional semi-circular house and was the youngest daughter of a proud Afar family of five. The family's mother told us that her husband was a migrant because they could not live on grazing alone. They kept a few goats and lived on flour distributed by UNICEF, and their household goods were a few pots and pans and a few pieces of clothing.

Epilogue: Afar Triangle
- Thinking about an Afar little girl​​​​​​​
Our journey ended when we returned from the scorching lowlands to Mek'ele in the Ethiopian highlands. Mek'ele is the final destination town where the Afar men led their "Camel's Salt caravan" on a two-and-a-half-day walk from Lake Asale to receive their daily allowance.

A few days later, I flew from Mek'ele airport to Addis Ababa airport to return to Japan. One thing still lingers in my mind.

I met a young girl and her family in a roadside savanna shortly after landing in the Danakil lowlands. She lived in a traditional semi-circular house and was the youngest daughter of a proud Afar family of five. The family's mother told us that her husband was a migrant because they could not live on grazing alone. They kept a dozen goats and lived on flour distributed by UNICEF, and their household goods were a few pots and pans and a few pieces of clothing.

I wonder if an Afar little girl could meet her father.
A girl's elder sister
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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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