Etiopia - Redux

Assal, the Plain of Salt. A caravan of camels silhouetted on the horizon, in Ethiopia. Modernity is breaking through the Danakil. More and more trucks...

Great Plain of Salt. A portrait of Kedir Hydera Adbera, 65, from Hamed Ela, in Ethiopia. He worked as a salt cutter for 46 years. In the pit there are...

The Plain of Salt. An Afar loading the camels and prepares to leave, in Ethiopia. The salt mines of Lake Assal, 116 m below sea level, an arid and sco...

Assal, the Plain of Salt. A caravan of camels silhouetted on the horizon, in Ethiopia. Modernity is breaking through the Danakil. More and more trucks...

An Afar Nomad recovers empty water bottles in a village near the volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. The Afar people seem to have appeared from nowhere. Th...

Afar Village near the Volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. An Afar child plays with empty water tanks. The Afar people seem to have appeared from nowhere. T...

Ethiopia, Danakil. Assale, The Plain of Salt. A caravan of camels silhouetted on the horizon, in Ethiopia. The Danakil is the homeland of the Afars. T...

The geothermal area of Dallol in Danakil, in Ethiopia. Because of political instability in the region, a military escort is required to visit this par...

The geothermal area of Dallol in Danakil, in Ethiopia. Because of political instability in the region, a military escort is required to visit this par...

Dallol volcano is located in the Danakil Depression in NE Ethiopia, in a remote area subject to the highest average temperatures on the planet. It has...

Dallol volcano is located in the Danakil Depression in NE Ethiopia, in a remote area subject to the highest average temperatures on the planet. It has...

Dallol volcano is located in the Danakil Depression in NE Ethiopia, in a remote area subject to the highest average temperatures on the planet. It has...

Dallol volcano is located in the Danakil Depression in NE Ethiopia, in a remote area subject to the highest average temperatures on the planet. It has...

Dallol volcano is located in the Danakil Depression in NE Ethiopia, in a remote area subject to the highest average temperatures on the planet. It has...

Plain salt. Salt slabs ready to be transported by caravans, in Ethiopia. Salt is the only stone that you eat on planet Earth. In Ethiopia, it was used...

A small Afar’s hut near the village of Hamed Ela, in Ethiopia. In this desolation the Afars’ huts - built with mud and twigs - appear like a mirage.

Traveling to the volcano Erta Ale. Our base camp on the shore of Lake Afrera. The cook Asrat Teszare preparing the dinner. Lake Afrera is a hypersalin...

Traveling to the volcano Erta Ale. A tent on the shore of Lake Afrera. Lake Afrera is a hyper saline lake in the Danakil Depression. Rock salt has bee...

A view of the volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. Erta Ale is a continuously active basaltic shield volcano in the Afar Region and is the most active volca...

Traveling to the volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. A base camp on the shore of Lake Afrera. Lake Afrera is a hypersaline lake in the Danakil Depression....

Village of Afrera. My guide Ibrahim (pictured right) who will accompany me to the volcano Erta Ale, during the hottest hours resting in a cafe?. In th...

Volcano Erta Ale. A small settlement consisting of a few stone huts is the only outpost to the crater rim where you can spend the night. In this image...

Volcano Erta Ale. A small settlement consisting of a few stone huts is the only outpost to the crater rim where you can spend the night. In this image...

The fiery sky over the volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. Erta Ale, the most active volcano in Ethiopia. Its ever-present lava lake is one of fewer than a...

On the edge of the crater Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. In this photo the portrait of a young Afar guides who accompanies travelers to the edge of the crater...

The lava lake inside the crater of the volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. Erta Ale is the most active volcano in Ethiopia. Its ever-present lava lake is o...

The lava lake inside the crater of the volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. Erta Ale is the most active volcano in Ethiopia. Its ever-present lava lake is o...

The fiery sky over the volcano Erta Ale. Erta Ale is a continuously active basaltic shield volcano in the Afar Region and is the most active volcano i...

Waideddo Desert, on the road between Hamed Ela and the volcano Erta Ale, in Ethiopia. An abandoned Afar village.

Ethiopia, Danakil. Assal, the Plain of Salt. A caravan of camels silhouetted on the horizon. In this photo Berhe Micheal (Tigray ethnic group), age 24...

Village of Hamed Ela. The interior of an Afar hut has been turned into a bar, the "Mireaia Coffee House". Here you can drink coffee, smoke hookah, and...

Portrait of an Afar child, Aisha Asa, 6 years old, lives in Hamed Ela.

Ethiopia, Danakil. The salt mines of Lake Assal, 116 m below sea level, an arid and scorching desert of rock salt in the eye, where from ages Afar and...

Ethiopia, Danakil. The salt mines of Lake Assal, 116 m below sea level. In the pit there are two categories of workers: the extractors, the "fokolo",...

Ethiopia, Danakil. The salt mines of Lake Assal. A portrait of Mohamed Ali (Afar ethnic group), 46 years old, who lives in Hamed Ela. In the pit there...

Ethiopia, Danakil. The salt mines of Lake Assal. A portrait of Mebrahtu Tadesse (Tigray ethnic group), 20 years old, who hails from Adgudem.

Ethiopia, Danakil. The salt mines of Lake Assal, 116 m below sea level. In this image a portrait of Mohamed Ali (Afar ethnic group), 42 years old, 6 c...

Ethiopia, Danakil. The salt mines of Lake Assal. A portrait of Hailemo (Tigray ethnic group), 53 years old, who hails from Samre.

Ethiopia, Danakil. Assal, the Plain of Salt. A caravan of camels silhouetted on the horizon. In this photo Berhe Micheal (Tigray ethnic group), age 24...

Ethiopia, Danakil. Assal, the Plain of Salt. A caravan of camels silhouetted on the horizon. In this photo Berhe Micheal (Tigray ethnic group), age 24...

Village of Hamed Ela. The interior of an Afar hut has been turned into a bar, the "Mireaia Coffee House". Here you can drink coffee, smoke hookah, and...

Portrait of an Afar girl, Aisha Zainu, lives in Hamed Ela.

Village of Hamed Ela, in Ethiopia. A hut has become a hotel in which the passing-by workers can sleep on one of the typical stuffed beds.

My tent and those of my group, at dawn, before leaving the village of Hamed Ela, in Ethiopia. A hut has become a hotel in which the passing-by workers...

Ethiopia, Danakil. Assale, the Plain of Salt. A caravan of mules and camels crossing the salt plain of Assal near the Ethiopia-Eritrea border. The cam...

Salt Plain, road to Dallol, in Ethiopia. From the geological point of view, the Salt Plain of Dallol is very young; it formed from repeated inputs of...

The Danakil. Sulphurous springs near Dallol, in Ethiopia. It is from the retreat of the sea, evaporated twenty thousand years ago, that the Danakil ha...

Landscape on the road between Dallol and Hamed Ela, in the Salt Plain, in Ethiopia. This land made of fire, salt and lava close to the Rift Valley - t...

Assal, Salt Plain. The white surface of the Salt Lake. My guide Ali meets his friend Mohamed who also works as a guide for tourists in the Danakil. Th...

A jeep on the road between Dallol and Hamed Ela, in the Salt Plain, in Ethiopia. This land made of fire, salt and lava close to the Rift Valley - the...