Expedition to Danakil Depression and Erta’ale Volcanoes

Highlight

This trip takes you Awash National Park- famous for its wildlife and spectacular Awash River Falls, Dallol or Danakil Depression- One of the remotest, the lowest and unique land formation of the world in the great rift valley system, still this part of the earth is unstable and pulling each other to the opposite side and it is 116 meters below sea level, Erta Ale is one of the few volcanoes on the world that have an almost persistent lava lake. It is an isolated basaltic shield volcano, 50 km wide, rising more than 600 m from below sea level in the barren Danakil depression, the salt lakes of Afdera and Asale, and to the tribal villages of the nomadic Afar people. In this region, the climate varies from around 25 0 C (77 0 F) during the rainy season to 48 0 C (118 0 C) during the dry season (March- August). Amazingly, it is one of the hottest places year round any where on Earth. Only the Awash River flows into the depression, where it ends in a chain of lakes that increase in salinity.

Duration: 10 days/ 9 nights
Transport: Surface/Air

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival Addis Ababa-O/N – Hotel.

Day 2: Drive to Awash- O/N – Hotel.

Day 3: Drive to Afdera- O/N – Camping

Day 4: Drive to Kosrwad and three hours walk to Erta’ale Volcanoes. O/N – Camping

Day 5: walk back to Kosrwad and drive to Ahmed Ela. O/N – camping.

Day 6: Excursion to Lake Asale-salt mining lake and to Dallol (116 meter below sea level, one of the lowest places in the world) to visit saltpan, Salt rocks, sulfur spring and drive back to Ahmed Ela and visit the Camel Caravan. O/N – Camping.

Day 7: Drive to Mekele through the town of Berhile. O/N – Camping

Day 8: A scenic drive to Lalibela, visit Yemrhane Kirstos/ Neakuto Leab Cave Church. O/N Hotel

Day 9: Visit the Rock Churches of Lalibela (12^th Century AD). O/N- Hotel

Day 10: Transfer to the airport and fly back to Addis, sightseeing tour and departure. O/N -Hotel.

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