Tour Code: ATTA 007
Duration: 4 Days and 3 Nights
Means of Traveling: By Flight and Surface
Danakil Depression for 3 Nights and 4 Days
DAY ONE: ADDIS—MEKELLE—HAMEDELLA
Early morning fly from ADDIS to MEKELLE, and after arrive at Mekelle airport and continue to drive to the Dalol Depression with Land Cruisers. Therefore, we will have one Land Cruisers for you and one extra for the cook, armed rangers and for road guides. You will pick two armed rangers and one road guide at Berhaile and en route will have a chance to meet the salt Caravans. O/N camping at Hamdela.
DAY TWO: HAMEDELLA--- KURSEWAD (ERTALE)
Day drive to Kursewad. In the late afternoon, trek to Ertale to see the bubbling magma in the night. If the group unable to trek by themselves, they can hire a Camel by themselves. The payment may be from 400-500 Ethiopian birr (29-35 USD) for a day. The group will pass the night at the hill top to observe the active volcano. In the morning at 5:00 am, they will trek down to Kursewad. O/N Camping at Ertale.
DAY THREE: ERTALE—HAMEDELA
Drive back to Hamdela crossing 90 Km desert sand road. O/N Hamdela Camping.
DAY FOUR: HAMEDELA ---MEKELLE—ADDIS
Morning drive to Lake Asale where you meet people extracting the bar salt from the salt plain. Bar Salt used as a currency in the 18th C. Ethiopia and Asale was the center for curving bar salt as equal to minting coins. In the afternoon, drive to the Dalol depression which is the lowest depression on Earth and the landscape covered by colorful phosphate. Then drive to Mekele along the scenic route and enjoying the Caravans on the road and then be transferred to Mekelle airport for fly back to Addis at 19:30 hrs. O/N in Addis.
