Day 1: Drive to Danakil Depression – Hamed Ela
Meet up at the airport or at Your hotel. Join the Danakil Depression Trip. We start driving to HamedEla. On arrival at Berehaile, the 180 km road will take you a a scenic landscape that changes while you begin dropping from the highland of Mekele 2,220 Meters below sea level, to the Dankile depression below sea Level. It is full of eye-catching scenic landscapes, That change every time you move into The Danakil Depression is one of the most inhospitable places in the world.
The area is economically very important as a source of salt. Many traditional salt miners still make a living by traversing the desert and bringing the precious salts to the highlands. On our way, we may see Camel caravans carrying salt out of the Danakil.
Overnight camping in Hamed Ela.
Day 2: Dallol – Mekele – Addis Ababa
Early in the morning after having breakfast, we will drive to Ragad-Asebo to see the traditional salt miners. Here they break the breaking of the solidified salt rock into rectangular Salt bars, that will be loaded on the camels and shipped to the highlands of Ethiopia, where many farmers use it for cattle feeding.
Afterwards we drive ahead to Dallol the lowest point at 116 meters below sea level. Dallol is a unique otherworldly Landscape with nonstop volcanic activity that creates colorful hot springs, Sulfuric lakes, Salt mountains, and flat salt desert.
Drive back to Mekelle.
Fly to Addis Ababa