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 Afrerā, 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 Unpublished,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.. |
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