Nearby

Danakil Depression

geological depression, northern part of the Afar Triangle or Afar Depression

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Mekele

the capital city in the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia

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we will see

Lake Karum

Ethiopia
The salt flats are mined by hand, with the slabs of salt loaded onto to camel trains and taken to Hamed Ela, from where they are trucked to Mekele.