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alainloss: Teff (millet-like cereal) threshing north of Awash
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alainloss: Afars loading their camels at the waterhole near Samera
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alainloss: Tigrayan workers mining salt - Lake Afdera
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alainloss: Tigrayan worker - Lake Afdera
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alainloss: Tigrayan worker - Lake Afdera
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alainloss: Playful Tigrayan woman - Afdera
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alainloss: Group of Afar women at Berhale
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alainloss: Ahmed Ela village in the early morning light
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alainloss: Typical Afar huts - Ahmed Ela
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alainloss: Local Afar guide
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alainloss: Afar tribe man - Ahmed Ela
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alainloss: Driving from Dodom to Erta Ale
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alainloss: Armed guards at Erta Ale base camp
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alainloss: Afar loading his camels for the trek up to the Erta Ale volcano
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alainloss: Erta Ale volcano being so close to the border with Eritrea, Afar soldiers are very visible
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alainloss: Rough surface of cooled basaltic lava - Erta Ale volcano
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alainloss: Bird's eye view of Erta ale ( meaning smoking mountain) volcano
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alainloss: the Erta Ale caldera contains a permanent lava lake, a sea of liquid fire
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alainloss: A glowing and sizzling cauldron of molten lava - Erta Ale
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alainloss: Afar leading his camels down to Erta Ale base camp
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alainloss: Dallol sulphur and potassium pools are kept active by ground water and geothermal activity
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alainloss: Dallol hydrothermal field and its psychedelic mix of orange yellow and green
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alainloss: Dallol and its steaming hot springs and miniature geysers
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alainloss: The Dallol field offers a kaleidoscope of mineral colours
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alainloss: Lying 100m and more below sea level, Dallol is one of the lowest places on earth
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alainloss: Salt, sulphur and potash paint a surreal Dallol landscape
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alainloss: Dallol's seemingly martian landscape in the most unforgiving climate
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alainloss: Afar guard before the Salt Canyon
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alainloss: Salt canyon with its rocks sharp-shaped by wind and water
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alainloss: The Yellow Lake with its supersaturated waters