Danakil Basin - Where the god of death does not sleep on Earth

With temperatures ranging from 37 to 62 degrees C, Danakil depression (Ethiopia) is considered the "harshest land on Earth", where the god of death never overslept.

Danakil depression - The hottest place in the world

Danakil Depression (Danakil Depression) is located in the Danakil Desert in Ethiopia - a country in Africa, considered the hottest place in the world.

The Danakil Desert belongs to the Afar Triangle, which includes northeastern Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, Djibouti and northwestern Somalia.

It is about 100 meters below sea level, contains many red rocks, sulfur ore and salt mines . Geologists believe that salt mines were created over time from floods near the Sea of ​​Spill.

Afar people are exploiting salt in the Danakil depression.

This depression is the only habitat of the Afar people . In the Danakil depression, salt is synonymous with money because the entire economy here depends on the exploitation and trading of mineral salts.

Local people often use traditional methods and tools such as hoes and ropes to exploit salt. They cut, packed and transported salt out of the desert by camel.

Afar people cut, packed and transported salt out of the desert by camel.

This is quite dangerous work because high temperatures can kill workers and sometimes earthquakes happen to landslides and swallow camels.

Danakil - The harshest land on the planet

With an area covering a large area of ​​about 100,000 square kilometers, this is the region with the most arid terrain in the world. National Geographic Magazine (USA) has called this region 'the harshest place on Earth'.

A British explorer named Wilfred Thesiger described Danakil as "a dead land". And this is possible. Only the most desperate birds try to go through this barren area, and even try to drink less water.

Below the low-lying area is a boiling lava flow just 20km from the surface. The soil here is also getting thinner due to tectonic movements.

Few people know, this land of fresh colors rises like rotten eggs.

During the drought period, it is listed as corpses of birds and camels that die from dehydration. The terrible heat in the desert quickly evaporates the flood water and leaves behind layers of crystalline salt.

The Danakil depression is unlike any other in the world, because it is surrounded by sulfur, salt and minerals, so it has a characteristic odor. People say Danakil is like a blistering patch of the earth.

For this land, water is extremely scarce and becomes a precious commodity because this land contains sulfur so not many places have fresh water to drink. There are very few freshwater reservoirs and very little rainfall during the year is very small.

This is now the convergence of deadly disasters such as volcanoes, geysers, earthquakes and extremely toxic superheated water.

Beauty has "1-0-2" at the land of death

Dubbed the hottest and most intense place on the planet, the Danakil depression brings strange beauty that is not everywhere.