Danakil Depression

The Last wilderness of Ethiopia-The Danakil

Any one who wants to visit the homeland of this Great, Great, Great --- grandmother of the 6 Billion people of the world have to travel to the Afar region

   

The Afar region is part of the Ethiopian Rift Valley. Since the late 1960s it has attracted the attention of researchers because of its uniqueness as the world's only active, suberial triple junction where the complex tectonics and volcanism of an area between three separating lithospheric plates (African, Eastern African, and Arabian) can be observed on dry land. From archaeological point of view it was from this region that LUCY, the most important hominid skeleton dated at about 3.5 million years discovered.