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February 2nd 2014

Published: February 2nd 2014

Greetings from Nairobi. What a culture shock - totally different from Gondar. The first thing I did when I arrived yesterday was walk to a shop and buy a diet coke. Bliss! The house I am staying in is lovely, comfortable and CLEAN. There is even someone employed to do the cooking. Result! It has wifi too! Enough about Nairobi for now. This blog is my final one about Ethiopia. I left Gondar 9 days... Read Full Entry

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Volcanic sulphur fields

Danakil

Volcanic sulphur fields

Danakil

Volcanic sulphur fields. Clashing t shirt. Disaster.

Danakil

Volcanic sulphur fields

Danakil

Volcanic sulphur fields

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These rock formations look like a miniature city

Danakil

These rock formations look like a miniature city

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Lake full of potassium. Locals use it for skin conditions. There were some dead birds by the lake - poor things hadn't realised that the water was poisonous

Bubbling pool

Bubbling pool

Salt rock

Afar people making slabs of salt. They make around 100 a day.

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Each slab weighs around 6kg.

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The salt slabs get loaded onto camels and donkeys. It is a 2 day a walk to the nearest place where they can sell the salt and 7 days walk to Mekele where they will get a better price for them.

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