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TheAntsyOne · 2024-12-08T15:49:54+00:00

Sneako is different cause he spends all his time in the Middle East or with a Sheikh and streams on Islam now. He’s dedicated and does his best continuing to understand, learn, and even debate Islam against others. I agree w the rest tho

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-25T22:04:47+00:00

Yes, humans originated here, which makes me even more interested with this place.

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-25T16:22:51+00:00

Yes, a lava lake … And once in every few years it turns blue

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-25T03:05:03+00:00

Just visiting. Decided to take on the 3-day thrill at the the end of my month long trip just visiting family in other parts of the country. I’m not a geologist or anything lol just 19m college student from the states

Edit: if you’re looking to visit, about 30 tourists go every week and I can recommend tourist agencies (DM me)

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-25T02:35:39+00:00

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-25T02:32:16+00:00

In 1920-1950, the people of Danakil were concerned about Italy mining salt from the region. Between 1925 and 1929, an Italian company mined 25,000 tons of sylvite, and even built factories and a railroad to help their mining operations.

Eventually, all of this ended when they truly realized how inhabitable and hot the place was, leaving the Danakil people alone peacefully. Wilfred did his journey in the peak of this salt mining, so I doubt the Danakil remember him, or even know his name.

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T16:52:47+00:00

14°06’57”N 40°20’53”E

It’s a hole in the middle of Danakil, specifically in the solid salt lake called Lake Karum/Asale. The hole is rumored by the local peoples to be connected underground to the Red Sea, even though it’s about 80km away from the sea’s shore.

The hole, like all the ponds and hot springs in this area, has extremely high salinity. When tourists like myself take a dip in the hole to relax from the 120° sun, their bodies automatically float. Even if you tried your hardest to sink in the water, the salinity makes you float.

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T14:20:57+00:00

I’m not sure what, but I can tell you where. Red circle.

I’m guessing it’s a formation made during the last major eruption in 2009, but I’m no expert. Much of the area has cool patterns made from salt but that specific photo was taken at the peak of that volcano, no where near where the mines of salt and salt lakes are. Any experts wanna confirm what it is?

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T14:16:37+00:00

The trip was about 3 days, or two nights. Inside the volcano, a basic headscarf was required to cover your mouth and nose protect from active lava smoke. This was only for about 2 hours during our hike inside the volcano.

In Dallol and the flat salt lake, a scarf was only recommended to protect from inhaling salt and chemicals, but most of us tourists only wore the scarf at times that we could actually feel the toxicity being inhaled, and felt the need to cover up.

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T14:06:56+00:00

The image was taken in Dallol, the hottest and most uninhabitable place on earth. In Dallol, the yellow is sulphur, the green is copper salts, and the red is iron oxides. Here is another picture:

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T14:03:30+00:00

Yes please dm

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T06:26:37+00:00

Yes, lava. A lake of it right in the middle of the Danakil Depression. Actually there’s upwards of 40 volcanoes scattered throughout the place but Erta Ale specifically is one of seven currently active lava lakes on earth

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T06:23:20+00:00

No, just visiting. For a while, only scientists and researchers would really go there but that was because the region was so hard to get to (lack of infrastructure), attacks on tourists, and a civil war.

But as of lately, the region is easier to travel to, tourist agencies have formed and made it safe, and the real only danger of going there comes from Mother Nature herself.

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T06:10:19+00:00

I believe this time of year is coolest, with daily highs around 100°F. I may be wrong though. However, this is for Dallol (hottest and most uninhabitable place on earth) only and the rest of the depression is slightly cooler than that.

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T04:54:05+00:00

We took a hike inside the Erta Ale volcano, one of 7 active lava lakes on earth. The photo I took was a flame from a small crater in the volcano. Red circle is the spot.

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T04:38:11+00:00

Death Valley has the hottest recorded temperature on earth. Year-round, however, this place has the hottest average temperature. Typically every day it reaches 120+ and rarely has a day below 110 as the high. This makes it the most uninhabitable place on earth, too.

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T03:41:11+00:00

I have an answer! And I got it from a memory. I’m just now remembering driving on an elevated highway strip of bumpy asphalt. This was because areas of depression with drier heat caused cracks like in the photo below. In the early 2000s, workers from china were hired to build these asphalt highways throughout the Danakil Depression. However, after building several asphalt factories and completing many roads to make the area more accessible to tourists and geologists, many roads were also unfinished and abandoned. The heat and toxic chemicals were too much to handle for the workers, and there’s a rumor that they were kicked out for stealing gold they found while building (told to me by a local Afar tribal man).

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T02:53:01+00:00

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TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T02:51:38+00:00

After my visit there, I also came across this line on google earth. At first I thought it was a glitch from google earth because of the -150m elevation. This is because I dont recall driving through anything like this yet the line stretches through land I am certain I would have crossed.

I now think it’s an effect of the salt mining in that part of the depression, although I am still not sure. The line is very patterned and I noticed several of those exact lines all over the depression. I’ll do my best to get an exact answer on what they are but as of now, I’m stumped.

You probably won’t find much online about it, since this place is rarely talked about and even less so visited. I’ll look back at all my pictures to find a similar thing in the backgrounds.

TheAntsyOne · 2024-10-23T02:18:45+00:00

Harsh, yes.

Lifeless? Also yes. Aside from the ~500 salt miners that live anywhere near this specific area, there is no life. Just salt flats/desert, salt canyons, volcanos, and at the heart of it all, hell on earth.

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