A general view of the countryside around Semera showing a dry dusty desert.
A rare eample of an ordinary car, unusual as most vehicles are either tuk-tuks or 4x4s.
Some long wooden poles used for scaffolding, walls for houses and to support shuttering to pour concrete walls and floors.
A view of the desert being mostly sand.
Another view of the desert, this time comprised of rocks with sand in between.
A wooden frame for one of the houses.
A covered frame.
Our vehilces parked in whatever shade there was to keep them cool in temperatures passing 50C degrees.
Our pasta lunch at the Awash Hotel en route to Erta Ale.
It is so hot that people sleep in open sided barns but these goats were taking the opportunity for a soft bed.
A view of the desert and the two vehicles of our convoy in front.
A view of the evaporation ponds at Afrera used to produce salt to satisfy 95% of local requirements and the surplus is exported..
The huts at our beach side hot spring camp site...I slept in the open.
One of the pump intakes from the lake to supply the evaportion ponds.
The lowest island in the world at 102 metres below sea level.
Our evening meal.
Breakfast.
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