The village of Hamed Ela

The village of Hamed Ela
<Series 16 : The village of Hamed Ela>
The villagers of Hamed Ela make a living from work related to "salt." About 4,000 villagers live near Lake Asale, a vast salt lake that is mostly dry, and men go to Lake Asale for work. They cut out a "block" of salt in the salt lake in the morning and carry it on hundreds of camels: Each camel carries about 200 kg of salt. The camel caravan departs Lake Asale in the afternoon and takes two days to travel via Hamed Ela to Berhale(about a total of 50km).

Location: Hamed Ela, Northeastern Ethiopia, February 2015
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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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