Dallol

Dallol rises above the salt plains of the Danakil Depression, in a region of extraordinary heat and aridity. Beneath the surface, volcanic magma and ancient salt deposits feed a landscape of saline springs, mineral crusts and eroded pillars. Nearby salt flats owe their great deposits to waters that entered the depression from the Red Sea and later evaporated. Afar communities have extracted this valuable salt and carried it by camel from the desert.