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Expedition to hell on Earth
If you are bored with the beaches and tedious from a city break is worth a try travel beyond this world. Tour company Volcano Discovery offers travelers in search of an unusual travel to the desert Danakil in Ethiopia - one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. The landscape is so unusual that it seems as if you were on another planet. The founder of Volcano Discovery Tom Pfeiffer, who 40 years, a volcanologist from Germany, said: "People are happy to pay for a week or two-week tour of the strangest place on earth."
15 photos via telegraph.co.uk translation daypic
2. Danakil - is very often terrible volcanoes, scorching air, toxic gases and sulfur lakes. Most unpleasant conditions of the place have made him "the cruelest place on Earth."
3. In this hot raging at the huge Arabian tectonic plate breaks, separating the African plate in half. Kollosalnyh division, which is a gradual separation of the huge underground reservoir, causes the appearance of two "emerging" daughter boards, which the scientists have named the Somali and Nubian. The efforts of volcanic activity, frequent earthquakes, as failures occur throughout the length of the fault, allowing the lava erupting from the depths of the planet's surface.
4. Fearless travelers willing to pay a lot of money to get right to the heart of this place. Volcano Discovery offers a three-week tour, valued at 3,000 pounds, which begins in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. 67-year-old retired civil servant Kwame Ofori from London vacationing with customers and several private VolcanoDiscovery tourists in November.
5. He said: "It's much more interesting than to spend a week by the pool. Those who come here need to understand that they do not provide luxury bungalows overlooking the beach. This harsh environment filled with strange smells and views. Native species - delicious and unique. All around is full of unusual colors and scenery like nowhere else. The heat can be unbearable at times, but worth it. This is really something new. "
6. The expedition group oversees longwall lake on the volcano Erta Ale.
7. People watching a bright red glow longwall izlagerya lake on the periphery of the caldera.
8. Small island on the salt lake.
9. Orange salty "cake" in the middle of the green, acid, salt pond.
10. Miniature salt terraces on a green, acidic pond sostrannym pattern on the volcano Dallol.
11. Sunrise over the great salt lake in the northern part of the Danakil desert.
12. The fresh, black, glassy lava trail latest release, which flowed along the bottom of the caldera on top of an old lava
13. Non-ferrous salt crust bizarre shapes.
14. The members of the expedition Michelle and Michael photographed and removed the main lake in the moonlight.
15. International expedition team and the local volcano Erta Ale komandana in Afar, Ethiopia.
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15 photos via telegraph.co.uk translation daypic
2. Danakil - is very often terrible volcanoes, scorching air, toxic gases and sulfur lakes. Most unpleasant conditions of the place have made him "the cruelest place on Earth."
3. In this hot raging at the huge Arabian tectonic plate breaks, separating the African plate in half. Kollosalnyh division, which is a gradual separation of the huge underground reservoir, causes the appearance of two "emerging" daughter boards, which the scientists have named the Somali and Nubian. The efforts of volcanic activity, frequent earthquakes, as failures occur throughout the length of the fault, allowing the lava erupting from the depths of the planet's surface.
4. Fearless travelers willing to pay a lot of money to get right to the heart of this place. Volcano Discovery offers a three-week tour, valued at 3,000 pounds, which begins in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. 67-year-old retired civil servant Kwame Ofori from London vacationing with customers and several private VolcanoDiscovery tourists in November.
5. He said: "It's much more interesting than to spend a week by the pool. Those who come here need to understand that they do not provide luxury bungalows overlooking the beach. This harsh environment filled with strange smells and views. Native species - delicious and unique. All around is full of unusual colors and scenery like nowhere else. The heat can be unbearable at times, but worth it. This is really something new. "
6. The expedition group oversees longwall lake on the volcano Erta Ale.
7. People watching a bright red glow longwall izlagerya lake on the periphery of the caldera.
8. Small island on the salt lake.
9. Orange salty "cake" in the middle of the green, acid, salt pond.
10. Miniature salt terraces on a green, acidic pond sostrannym pattern on the volcano Dallol.
11. Sunrise over the great salt lake in the northern part of the Danakil desert.
12. The fresh, black, glassy lava trail latest release, which flowed along the bottom of the caldera on top of an old lava
13. Non-ferrous salt crust bizarre shapes.
14. The members of the expedition Michelle and Michael photographed and removed the main lake in the moonlight.
15. International expedition team and the local volcano Erta Ale komandana in Afar, Ethiopia.
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