The Danakil Depression is one of the world's most odd places to visit, exploring the Afar region in Ethiopia's east. We will help you discover the 'hottest location on the globe,' which is home to salt lakes, lava lakes, volcanoes, and vibrant acidic springs - it's a fantastic, strange environment.
We counsel and construct less-traveled routes to match your individual demands using our guide knowledge and experience.
Addis Ababa – Fly To Semera Drive To Afdera-Volcano
This day we will meet you at the town of Semera airport then we will drive to Danakil depression. We start an early drive to Lake Afdera(a salt lake that is located in the heart of Danakil Depressions and in this lake you may have a chance at the natural hot springs then later you have to swim around this lake we will be driving to Dodom (at the base of Erta Ale). Leave after lunch, possibly at 01:30. After you pass several small hamlets scattered here and there in this desert land, Dodom is about 9.5km from Erta Ale and takes about 1 hour of trekking. Early dinner around 17:00, Camels transport all the camping materials and some food (sleeping materials like light mattresses and mat and water) to the volcano’s rim, where we spend the night watching the dramatic action of the boiling lava.
Danakil Depression (dallol and Erta Ale) ranks as one of Ethiopia’s most alluring and physically challenging natural attractions.
Erta Ale contains the world’s only permanent lava lake. Erta Ale is 613 meters, with a lava lake, one of only five in the world, at the summit. It is notable for being the longest existing lava lake, present since the early years of the twentieth century
overnight stay in camping
ErtaAle-HamadEla-Dallol-Afdera
This day after an early breakfast we will drive to HamadEla at 04:30, a better village with a total population of about 500 people. You will see lots of camel caravans and you will have the sunset look from the very shallow salt Lake Assale.
Morning tour Drive to Ragad (Asebo), the place where the
localities are mining salt. 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi) of the Afar Depression is covered by salt, and you will Look at the activity of breaking the salt from the ground, local people are cutting it into rectangular pieces and loading it on camels
Dallol is at the northernmost extension of the[Great] Rift Valley. It is below sea level and acts like a cauldron, trapping all the heat. Dallol is a field of phreatic craters in the barren salt plain NNE of the Erta Ale Range in one of the lowest (and hottest) areas of the desolate Danakil depression.
The Dallol craters are the Earth's lowest known subaerial volcanic vents. The most recent of these craters, Dallol, was formed during an eruption in 1926. Colorful hot brine springs and fumarolic deposits are found in the Dallol area.
overnight stay in camping
Afdera-Semera-Addis Ababa-Departure
This day you may have another chance to see the beauty of the sunrise in Lake Afdera then after breakfast, we will drive to the town of Semera and drop you at the airport for your departure
Meet on location or pick-up: Customers can come to our location or we can pick them up on request.
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