You are about to land in a planet within a planet: Dankalia, the land of the Afar People. From the shores of the Red Sea inland to the feet of the Eritrean and Ethiopian highlands, this is the heart of the Rift Valley. Geologically one of the most active spots on the planet, it is a vast expanse of deserts, lava and below-sea-level salt plains and lakes, active and extinct volcanoes along a south/north chain. The hottest region on the Earth with an extremely salty lake (Lake Afrerΰ, also named Lake Giulietti after the Italian explorer killed by the Afars in 1881) at 120 meters under the sea level kept alive by many thermal springs feeding it. The coastal part entirely in Eritrea and the inner, bigger part in Ethiopia (Tigray) it is the land of the Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy from Hadar, Ethiopia) our tree million years old ancestor and Buia's Homo (from Aalad, Eritrea, one million years old) the last one having all the characteristics of Homo Sapiens.
The pictures span a period between 1965 and 1974 - indeed morphologically little if anything should have changed in Dankalia to this day, they are as actual now as they were yesterday. Unpublished, you never saw them before - perhaps you never imagined that such a place could exist on our planet. They are old prints and reproduced through an old scanner - hence quality suffers. That is presently being improved.

• DANKALIA • articles of related interest.
 

• Assale • The Towers --- Great works of erosion
• Dallol • The Crater --- An extremely dangerous place
• Dallol • The treacherous terrain --- Watch your steps
• Assale • Salt Rivers --- Not only water flows
• Dallol • Geysers and solfatara
• Assale • Assale's Plain and Lake
• Lake Afrera • A marvelous salt lake 120 meters below sea level
• The Ertale Volcano • An active volcano in a long chain of extinct ones
• Awash River and Batiθ • By the Awash River and at Batiθ
• En route • Along the Danakil's Red Sea coast
• Danakil travels • Not for all, but everyone could try!
• Encounters • Afar women, getting water in the wadi and more
• The Rift Valley • Volcanoes of Eritrea and Tigray

• LUDOVICO M. NESBITT • pictures and drawings from the book which narrates the incredible adventures of the first Europeans who successfully crossed the planet's most hostile and savage environment.

• A STEP TOWARDS HUMAN ORIGINS • The Buia Homo one-million years ago in the Eritrean Danakil Depression.
 


  Daylight • Mankind: doomed? •

• Surviving the Day After • NBC • Nuclear, Chemical, Biological Civil Defense •

The message beyond "Surviving the Day After" is that, paradoxically, nothing short of a full scale nuclear holocaust can save man. It is a matter of simple logic: the earth can survive without man, man cannot survive without the earth. We have reached a point of no-return in trashing the planet and nothing, short of going back to a sort of pre-industrial-revolution civilization within the immediate future can reverse this process. Reasonably we would preferably forsake our existence here-and-now rather than surviving a nuclear nightmare: should that moment come, given a chance, we will have to get to terms with our innate survival instinct and regret that we did not give due consideration to the dark clouds heaping up on our civilization's horizon.
People of good will and understanding abound but they have their hands tied, nothing is in their power but to send out a warning message.
In a world with so many blind and selfish idiots holding the reins of power and economy doom upon mankind appears inescapable, a sort of doom which may show up, in the long term, as a blessing in disguise.
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