After breakfast at the Hotel, we meet with Enku (your organizer and Guide) at your Hotel about 07:00 Am and proceed to Erta Ale Volcanic Field through the Old Danakil sea . Today you have a chance to see a glance of the fresh lava flow and tectonically affected mountain ranges. Both recent basalts of spreading Axes, recent sediments and Highland rock sequences dominate the road Geology of the area where you are driving through. Paper work Processing with Erta Ale area chief and administrators for further continue of Erta Ale active volcano and get a permission for the visit. More to see the fresh lava flows. Overnight at the Base camp of Erta Ale

After a last short night camping on Erta Ale´s caldera rim we start our descend in the cooler hours of the early morning. As part of our camel caravan already left during the night, our breakfast awaits us at basecamp. By 4X4 jeeps we then travel to the area of Dallol and Lake Assale, driving along a quickly changing scenery from lava dessert to steppe, shortly climbing out of the Danakil depression onto the western highlands before heading back down into the Danakil to the Afar village of Hamed Ela. The afternoon / evening can be used to rest, have a semi-shower, explore Hamed Ela and observe the camel caravans passing through

As Hamed Ela is the hottest continuously inhabited location on the planet, we will focus on the cooler mornings and afternoons for our short expeditions, allowing for lunch and siesta during the midday heat. On the program are relatively short 4X4 jeep drives to Dallol hydrothermal system with its colourful deposit and small sources, and to the saline Assale Lake and the area where local people are cutting out the salt in the same traditional way their ancestors did