The Danakil Desert, in the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, is the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth, yet, the Afarimpeople live there as they have for centuries, despite an extreme lack of water.
With a backdrop of arid mountains, and a foreground of gravel and rocks, a lone tree manages to survive in the Danakil Desert, Ethiopia, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
An Afari man in green plastic sandals guides a donkey train across the salt pan of the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
Expanse of Salt, Lake Asale, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
The blue-green salt waters of Lake Asale contrast with the expanse of the surrounding salt pan in Ethiopia's hot and dry Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.,
The mirrored image of a tourist, with arms spread wide, is silhouetted against the warmth of sunset over Lake Asale in Ethiopia's hot, dry Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
Ridges of salt stand out in silhouette against the warm, mirrored image of sunset at Lake Asale in Ethiopia's hot, dry Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
Tourists gather at dusk on the mirror surface of Lake Asale, a huge but very shallow salt lake in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression .
A white ridge of salt snakes its way across Lake Asale in Ethiopia's hot and dry Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
A white ridge of salt snakes its way across the blue waters of Lake Asale in Ethiopia's hot and dry Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
At 1200 square km, the Lake Asale Salt Pan is the world’s second-largest. It is also at –130m in elevation.
A camel train carrying packs of mined salt is lead by an Afari tribesman, across the Asale salt pan in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
A donkey and camel train carrying packs of mined salt is lead by an Afari tribesman, across the Asale salt pan in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
A camel train carrying packs of mined salt is lead by two Afari tribesmen, across the Asale salt pan in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Great mounds of brown, dried salt erupt from the Asale salt pan in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Curvilinear patterns of dried salt stretch across the desolate landscape of Asale in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Circular patterns of dried salt stretch across the desolate Asale landscape in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Fumaroles spouting sulphuric acid and gas erupt on the floor of Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, creating yellow and green pools and orange-brown geometric patterns, in the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Fumaroles spouting sulphuric acid and gas erupt on the floor of Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, creating yellow and green pools and orange-brown geometric patterns, in the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Fumaroles spouting sulphuric acid and gas erupt on the floor of Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, creating yellow and green pools and orange-brown geometric patterns, in the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Green, orange and yellow pools of saline, sulphuric acid, formed from hydrogen thermal activity at Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
Green, orange and yellow pools of saline, sulphuric acid, formed from hydrogen thermal activity at Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
Great Plains of orange-brown geometrically-shaped pans of sulphuric spread out to the horizon in Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
Green, orange and yellow pools of saline, sulphuric acid, formed from hydrogen thermal activity at Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
Green, orange and yellow pools of saline, sulphuric acid, formed from hydrogen thermal activity at Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the most inhospitable place on Earth.
Fumaroles spouting sulphuric acid and gas erupt on the floor of Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, creating yellow and green pools and orange-brown geometric patterns, in the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Green, orange and yellow pools of saline, sulphuric acid, formed from hydrogen thermal activity at Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Green, orange and yellow pools of saline, sulphuric acid, formed from hydrogen thermal activity at Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Green and yellow pools of saline, sulphuric acid, formed from hydrogen thermal activity at Dallol in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Grey, eroded lava spreads out in the foreground with the great Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, stretching to a desolate horizon, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Layers of salt tens of metres thick have been eroded into these mountains of salt in the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Layers of salt tens of metres thick have been eroded into these mountains of salt in the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
The clear, brown waters of a sulphuric acid lake bubble and churn creating orange-brown banks of salt on a flat landscape in the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
The clear, brown waters of a sulphuric acid lake bubble and churn creating orange-brown banks of salt on a flat landscape in the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
A camel driver leads a camel loaded with salt to join a camel train at a salt mine on Lake Asale, in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
A salt miner trims a block of salt at a salt mine on Lake Asale, in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
A salt miner ties a block of salt ready for transport at a salt mine on Lake Asale, in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
A line of camels walks along a paved road in Ehiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Waddle and daub houses are grouped on a rocky plain with barren hills in the background in Ethipia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Plumes of dust rise high intoa. clear blue sky above the scrubby Danakil Desert in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
A woman and two young children stand in front of a scrub huts and a small corral in the Danakil Desert, in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place o Earth.
A person sits beside a low scrubby tree barren of leaves in front of a rough-made hut in the Danakil Desert, in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
Wind-blown fine sand rises high into a clear blue sky in the Danakil Desert in Etiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospitable place on Earth.
An expedition truck drives across a very rough, grey lava field with Erte Ale volcano in the background, in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, the hottest, driest, most inhospiotable place on Earth.
