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Danakil Depression

Explore Danakil Depression

$700
Duration
5 days
Max People
100
Min Age
10+
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Description

Danakil Depression is one of the most extreme and otherworldly places on Earth. Located in the Afar region of Ethiopia, it is the lowest point on the continent and is home to a variety of geological wonders, including active volcanoes, salt lakes, and lava fields.

Danakil is a vast depression popularly known for being one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, an arid, unwelcoming land, among the planet’s most tectonically active areas, home to more than 30 dormant volcanoes, and one which is crazily active.
Moreover, with an average daily maximum temperature of over 41ÂşC and, in some areas, dropping to 125m below sea level, Danakil is also, officially, the hottest inhabited place in the world because, despite being such a hostile environment and territory, this depression has been continuously occupied by a distinct ethnic group for more than 2000 years.

Dallol is a volcanic explosion crater (or maar) in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range in Ethiopia. It has been formed by the intrusion of basaltic magma in Miocene salt deposits and subsequent hydrothermal activity.
It is the lowest known sub-aerial volcanic area in the world. Dallol is one of the world's most spectacular landscape: a vast area of uplifted thick salt deposits affected by intense fumarolic activity, probably caused by an active volcanic system beneath several kilometers of evaporation salt deposits.

The main reason to come here is to witness all its insane geological formations and events, landscapes that will completely satisfy even the most intrepid travelers. From a set of bubbling springs composed of the brightest colors, steaming pools, sulphureous geysers to vast salt lakes and one very, very active volcano named Erta Ale, there isn’t a single traveler who doesn’t get wowed when visiting this place.

Highlights
  • Visiting Erta Ale
  • Visiting Dallo
  • Afdira salt Lake
  • Sleep outside open air Camping Site

Tour Plan

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Day 1 Drive from Addis Ababa to Semera

This day in the morning you will drive 596km from Addis Ababa.
Overnight: Hote Semera

Day 2: Drive from Semera to Hamadela

Early in the Morning After breakfast, drive to Ahmedela, the last small village before Dallol. From here we have about 20 km to reach our Destination wonder of the world.

Overnight: Camping Hamadela

Day 3: Visit Dallol and Erta Ale

Early morning visit Dallol and Asale. Afternoon drive to Erta Ale. As the sun goes down you will start the 20-minute hike up to the crater rim to Erta Ale volcano. Overnight: In a mattress admiring the stars. Feeling the basalt lava field of Erta Ale.

Overnight: Camping site: Erta Ale

Day 4: Visit Erta Ale and Afdira salt lake

Once again in the morning we will do the excursion to visit in the morning Erta Ale then drive back to Afdera. Here you can see modern salt extraction There are hot springs nearby where you may take a bath and also like the dead sea float on the lake. Drive back to Semera
Overnight: Hotel Semera

Day 5: Drive Back from Semera to Addis Ababa

Early in the morning, you will drive back to Addis Ababa the same rote. Overnight: Addis Ababa or Departure night flight

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