3 Days Danakil Depression Tour
Duration
3 days
Group Size
1 to 12 people
Ages
8 - 75
yrs
Languages
English
Tour Overview
The Danakil Depression is in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia and is one of the hottest and lowest places on the planet. A searing hot, brutal desert landscape dotted with stunning geological formations, salt lakes, acid springs, volcanoes, salt canyons, and salt flats. Danakil Depression (or Afar Depression) exhibits some uncommon wonders: lava that burns blue, bright yellow hot springs, and lakes of bubbling mud.
Additional information
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- This tour/activity will have a minimum of 5
Pickup
Dini Hotel is close to Afar tourism office administration and 4 km from airport - Time zone: Africa/Addis_Ababa
What's included
Government taxes
English speaking Guide
Accommodation (Camping)
Lunch: 3
Dinner: 2
Air-conditioned vehicle
Breakfast: 2
All Admission fee /Entrance fee
Gratuities
Other
Itinerary
At Semera, you’ll pile into the Toyota Landcruiser that will take you into the Danakil in convoy. You’ll begin the drive into the Danakil Depression at around 9 AM. The roads leading out of Semera are smooth and asphalted, and as you drive further out of town there are some wonderful views of the Afar landscape. As you drive further towards Afdera Town (Salt Lake), the roads get rougher until you reach the Danakil desert. Here, the roads are a maze of solidified lava, rock, and sand with an occasional palm-lined oasis. You will stop for lunch before continuing to the base camp of the Erta Ale volcano. The drive from Semera to Dodom is around 7 hours. Your cooking team will wait for you to prepare dinner. As the sun begins to dip behind the horizon, you begin the 1 half-hour hike up Erta Ale. You’ll reach the crater rim around 7:00 PM, where the fiery lava lake awaits You’ll spend some time on the volcano and you will descend to the campsite then you will be served your dinner.
Camping
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
This day wake up early morning hike to the top of the crater to visit the volcano activities for the second time before the sun rises too high. Visit the lava lake one last time before beginning the 3-hour drive to Hamed Ela (Dallol). You’ll begin your descent around 6:30 AM and will reach at campsite by 8 AM at the latest for breakfast. Today you’ll drive across the sweeping salt pans of the Danakil towards the small hamlet of Hamed Ela. You will reach around 1:30 pm then Visit Hamed Ela village a total population of about 600 people to see the lifestyle of the local people you’ll drive to Lake Asale visit to Lake Asale, to see local people mining salt and making salt into a rectangle shape then uploading on camels and the camel caravans. The sunset over Lake Asale is extraordinary and Salt Lake Asale is a huge salty lake where you will swim in the natural pool Salt Lake having a snack. Then drive back to Hamed Ela and around 7:30 pm serve your dinner.
Camping
Lunch:
Dinner:
Wake up early morning and drive to Dallol, one of the most stunning geological phenomena on the planet and one of the lowest hottest on the planet with an average temperature of 35 degrees Celsius there is a day when the temperature exceeds 48 degrees Celsius, and the average annual rainfall of between 100 and 200m, it is rightly considered one of the inhospitable places on the earth. The kaleidoscopic landscape its various acidic colors with fumaroles of greens, reds, and yellows formed by acidic springs and salt mounds create an alien landscape, watch the local Afar people mining the salt from the ground, loading onto the camel caravans and formation of the salt canyon. At Salt Canyon, you will have your breakfast around 9:am and you will drive to Semera around 3:30 -4:00 pm then directly drive to Semera airport to take your flight to Addis.
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