Danakil Depression
Earth's most extreme landscape — a volcanic depression 116 m below sea level with an active lava lake, Dallol's alien acid springs, and Afar salt caravans on one of the hottest inhabited surfaces on the planet.
Explore →Discover Ethiopia's extraordinary natural extremes — from the alien volcanoes and acid springs of the Danakil Depression (the hottest inhabited place on Earth) to the Simien Mountains where Gelada baboons graze above 1,000-metre escarpments beside the world's rarest wolf.
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Earth's most extreme landscape — a volcanic depression 116 m below sea level with an active lava lake, Dallol's alien acid springs, and Afar salt caravans on one of the hottest inhabited surfaces on the planet.
Explore →UNESCO World Heritage highland of dramatic 1,000-metre escarpments where herds of 500 Gelada baboons graze beside the world's rarest wolf, with Ethiopia's highest peak Ras Dashen at 4,550 m.
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