Ride 4WD toward Hamed Ela

Drove out of Erta Ale's Basecamp(Dodom) early the next morning, headed for Hamed Ela. When entered the Danakil Desert through the lava plateau passed through two days ago, the outside temperature had already exceeded 30 degrees Celsius even though it was early in the morning.

Ride 4WD toward Hamed Ela
<Series 15 : Ride 4WD toward Hamed Ela>
Drove out of Erta Ale's Basecamp(Dodom) early the next morning, headed for Hamed Ela. When entered the Danakil Desert through the lava plateau passed through two days ago, the outside temperature had already exceeded 30 degrees Celsius even though it was early in the morning.

Hamed Ela, a village in the Dallol area of the Afar Region, is set at an elevation of 92m (302ft) below sea level and was a stopover for the "Camel salt caravan" and a place to collect salt taxes, so a riverbank of Hamed Ela is known as a stopping place for many camel's caravans heading Lake Asare, the salt's mining places.
Location: Hamed Ela, Northeastern Ethiopia, February 2015
For more information:​​​​​​​ http://wikimapia.org/26361564/Hamed-Ela
Equipment: Canon EOS 5D markⅢ; Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8l Ⅱ USM; Capture One 20; Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Danakil Desert
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Hamed Ela's camp
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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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