3-Day Danakil Depression Group /Private Tour

Early in the morning, we will fly with you from Addis Ababa to Semera ET110(6:40 AM - 8:05 AM). You'll be picked up from Semera Airport or hotel & start your day by driving to Erta Ale (which means smoky mountain in Afar language). Erta Ale is one of the most alluring and physically challenging natural attractions anywhere in Ethiopia. It is a shield volcano with a base diameter of 30 km and a 1km square caldera at its summit. Erta Ale contains the world's only permanent lava lake. It is 613 meters, with a lava lake, one of only five in the world, at the summit. It is notable for being the longest existing lava lake, present since the early years of the twentieth century. Dinner will be served around 5:00 pm. After a short break, you'll trek up to Ertale at 8:00 pm. Camels will be transporting all the camping materials and some food (sleeping materials like light mattresses and mats and water) to the rim of the volcano.

You'll have an early sunrise at the northern one corresponds to the main pit crater, and walking 5 minutes to the southern and central pits could either correspond to an ancient pit or a simple collapse structure. The main pit-crater, 200 m deep and 350 m across, is subcircular and three-storied. The smaller southern pit is 65 m wide and about 100 m deep. You'll descend from Erta Ale around 9 am, and from Dodom. You'll go back to Dodom after an early breakfast, if possible at 7:00 am. You will reach latest at 10:30 am at the camp, where you will be relaxing. As soon as possible, you'll drive to reach the mythical Lake Giulietti (or Lake Afrera) (optional may not be available during summer time), a salt water lake located more than 100 meters below sea level, in one of the deepest depressions of the planet. Because of the picturesque landscape, it is interesting to visit the salt flats where the Afar people. You will spend the night at Hamed Ela.

Danakil to Mekelle (7-8hrs) You'll have a morning tour drive to Ragad (Asebo), the place where the locals are mining salt. Look at the activity of workers breaking salt from the ground, cutting it into rectangular pieces, and loading it onto camels. You'll drive ahead to Dallol and visit the different landscape formed by volcanic activity, Dallol + Lake Assal + camel caravans. You'll enjoy an excursion to Dallol (116 meters below sea level, one of the lowest places in the world), colorful salt mining, visit Lake Assal, follow camel caravans (No camel caravan in July, August, and early September), and walk with the Afar people. You'll drive back to Hamedela and proceed to Mekelle/Semera.