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3-Day Danakil Depression & Erta Ale Volcano from Semera
(3) Avis
Informations importantes
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Les nourrissons et les jeunes enfants peuvent voyager dans une poussette ou un landau
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Des options de transport en commun sont disponibles à proximité
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Des sièges pour bébé spécialisés sont disponibles
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Les voyageurs doivent avoir au moins un niveau modéré de forme physique
Politique d'annulation
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Les délais limites sont basés sur l'heure locale de l'expérience.
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Si vous annulez moins de 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience, le montant que vous avez payé ne sera pas remboursé.
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Cette expérience nécessite un nombre minimum de voyageurs. Si elle est annulée parce que le minimum n'est pas atteint, on vous proposera une autre date/expérience ou un remboursement intégral.
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The Danakil Depression demands more than a tour operator - it demands an expedition team.
This program is operated by a specialist Ethiopian ground operator whose field team provides a dedicated water supply vehicle power backup solutions throughout the entire expedition, ensuring hydration and safety in temperatures that regularly exceed 45°C. You travel in a private 4WD convoy with armed scout escort as required by regional authorities.
Your guide's knowledge goes beyond the surface: understand why Erta Ale is unique and one of a kind on Earth .. exists here, why Dallol's brine flows reach 100°C, and why Gaet'ale Pond holds the Guinness World Record as Earth's most saline water body at...
Points forts
3 jours
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
3 jours
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Déjeuner
Tous les frais et taxes
Dîner
Air-conditioned vehicle
Petit-déjeuner
Frais d'entrée
Articles à usage personnel
Transport aérien intérieur
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3-Day Danakil Depression & Erta Ale Volcano from Semera
(3) Avis
À propos
The Danakil Depression demands more than a tour operator - it demands an expedition team.
This program is operated by a specialist Ethiopian ground operator whose field team provides a dedicated water supply vehicle power backup solutions throughout the entire expedition, ensuring hydration and safety in temperatures that regularly exceed 45°C. You travel in a private 4WD convoy with armed scout escort as required by regional authorities.
Your guide's knowledge goes beyond the surface: understand why Erta Ale is unique and one of a kind on Earth .. exists here, why Dallol's brine flows reach 100°C, and why Gaet'ale Pond holds the Guinness World Record as Earth's most saline water body at...
Points forts
3 jours
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
3 jours
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Déjeuner
Tous les frais et taxes
Dîner
Air-conditioned vehicle
Petit-déjeuner
Frais d'entrée
Articles à usage personnel
Transport aérien intérieur
Tout ce qui n'est pas répertorié dans les inclusions
Itinéraire
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Semera → Lake Afdera → Erta Ale
2 Stops
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Lake Afrera
Meet at the airport of Semera, have breakfast at arrival and drive to Lake Afdera, a hypersaline lake sitting 100 meters below sea level in Ethiopia's Afar region. Afdera accounts for the largest share of salt production in Ethiopia. The lake covers 140 square kilometers, reaches an average depth of 36 meters, and holds a salinity of approximately 14% so dense that, like the Dead Sea, you cannot sink. Temperatures here regularly exceed 50°C between June and August, making this one of the most inhospitable climates on Earth. Your guide explains the Afar salt economy and the communities whose lives depend on this ancient mineral resource. A short stop at the lake's edge gives you a visceral sense of the scale and silence of one of Africa's most extreme inland water bodies before you continue off-road toward Erta Ale.
45 minutes
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Erta Ale
Reach the base of Erta Ale, basaltic shield volcano, Ethiopia's most active volcano and one of the rarest geological phenomena on Earth. known to have hosted a permanently boiling lava lake, a persistent lava lake at approximately 1,200°C for more than a century. Erta Ale sits at the center of the Afar Rift, where the African and Arabian tectonic plates are actively pulling apart, forming one of the few places on Earth where an open ocean is in the process of being born. A short hike of approximately 20 minutes brings you to the caldera rim. Stand at the edge and observe the churning lava below. Your guide explains the distinction between magma and lava, and the volcanic glass formations known as Pele's Hair and Pele's Tears found on the crater surface.