Epilogue -Near Addis Ababa, 2015

Ethiopia is a multi-ethnic country with about 80 ethnic groups, including the Oromo, Amhara, Tigre, and Afar. About 80% of the population is engaged in agriculture. Although Ethiopia has continued to make economic progress in recent years, its gross national income per capita is at the level of the poorest countries. Water sanitation is reportedly poor in villages away from urban areas, and chronic food shortages and education problems are prominent. At the time of our trip in 2015, when we left the provincial capital, the landscape was rural, with tin-roofed houses and donkey-drawn carts.

Epilogue
- Near Addis Ababa, 2015​​​​​​​
Ethiopia is a multi-ethnic country with about 80 ethnic groups, including the Oromo, Amhara, Tigre, and Afar. About 80% of the population is engaged in agriculture. Although Ethiopia has continued to make economic progress in recent years, its gross national income per capita is at the level of the poorest countries. Water sanitation is reportedly poor in villages away from urban areas, and chronic food shortages and education problems are prominent. At the time of our trip in 2015, when we left the provincial capital, the landscape was rural, with tin-roofed houses and donkey-drawn carts.
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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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