The Danakil depression is located in the northern part of Ethiopia, in the so-called “Afar’s Triangle”, which takes its name from the nomadic people who live there.
It is a region close to the border area among Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti.
This is a land made of fire, salt, and lava, close to the Rift Valley. This land can be considered a sort of a “ghost ocean”.
It is from the retreat of the sea, evaporated twenty thousand years ago, that the Danakil has gained its peculiarity: it is a spread of evaporitic rocks that gives rise to the Great Plain of Salt - a desert which stretches for about 6 hundred kilometers. This vast plain is the homeland of the Afar people.
Here arrive, from the Ethiopian plateau, caravans of dromedaries and mules to load the slabs salt.
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