Inside the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia's Danakil desert, camel caravans are used to carry salt. For centuries, the essential mineral has been mined by the Afar people, known for their ability to ...
The place is often described as the "gateway to hell" ...
The salt merchant did his best to dissuade me. “You don’t want to go there,” he said. “It’s hotter than hell, and they’re quite likely to chop your testicles off.” In the market in Mekele, in the ...
THE kidnap of a group of five Europeans (three Britons, a British-Italian woman and a French woman), along with a dozen Ethiopian guides and helpers, has highlighted one of the harshest parts of ...
Unlike destinations where visitor experience is organized around built infrastructure or cultural landmarks, the Danakil ...
Her family are among the 300,000 people who have been displaced by an offensive launched in late December by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) into Afar, an arid region of stony deserts and ...
If you're bored of the beach and sick of the city break, how about a holiday that's out of this world? Tour company VolcanoDiscovery offers jaded tourists a two-week tour of the Danakil Desert in ...
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