Karo by alessandrobergamini

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

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Karo by alessandrobergamini

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

http://bit.ly/1BC719M

Karo by alessandrobergamini

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

http://bit.ly/1BC719M

Karo by alessandrobergamini

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

http://bit.ly/1BC719M

Karo by alessandrobergamini

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

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Ethiopian priest, Gheralta by trevcole

An old priest in the Gheralta region of Tigrai

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Salt Caravan by Joel_Santos

The salt flats in the Danakil depression, Afar region, Ethiopia, are located 100 meters below sea level, along the borderline with Eritrea. This huge salt crust, which can go up to 1,000 meters thick, goes deep in the earth’s crust. Salt miners break plates of salt out of the ground, cut them into tiles of standard sizes (4kg or 8kg), stacking and tying them on the camels’ backs. Salt is money. Salary.
© Joel Santos – http://www.joelsantos.net

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Lava DemiGod by Joel_Santos

In the volcano Erta Ale, Ethiopia, some shy eruptions warns you about the presence of a lava lake, a rare natural phenomenon on our planet. Gradually, the activity ceases and the murmur becomes a black and opaque silence, mimicking its hardened surface. Time runs slowly, but it’s disturbed by the hiss of the contained pressure; the volcano’s anxiety increases and, in its core, an eruption shatters the crust and, like a divine act, triggers a chain reaction, breaking up the lake’s surface in tens of lava bursts rising in the air, increasing the surrounding temperature up to an intolerable level, capable of drying and cracking our skin. Shortly after, the lava’s drumming begins to slow down; the vibrant yellows and oranges become a dry and viscous hue of these colours, falling slowly into a solid, quiet and calm state. The scars heal and close, ending a cycle that, when this demigod volcano desires, will be repeated until the mother of all eruptions create a new lava lake, somewhere in the hottest place on Earth. © Joel Santos – http://www.joelsantos.net

http://bit.ly/1D3ZRNJ

Lava DemiGod by Joel_Santos

In the volcano Erta Ale, Ethiopia, some shy eruptions warns you about the presence of a lava lake, a rare natural phenomenon on our planet. Gradually, the activity ceases and the murmur becomes a black and opaque silence, mimicking its hardened surface. Time runs slowly, but it’s disturbed by the hiss of the contained pressure; the volcano’s anxiety increases and, in its core, an eruption shatters the crust and, like a divine act, triggers a chain reaction, breaking up the lake’s surface in tens of lava bursts rising in the air, increasing the surrounding temperature up to an intolerable level, capable of drying and cracking our skin. Shortly after, the lava’s drumming begins to slow down; the vibrant yellows and oranges become a dry and viscous hue of these colours, falling slowly into a solid, quiet and calm state. The scars heal and close, ending a cycle that, when this demigod volcano desires, will be repeated until the mother of all eruptions create a new lava lake, somewhere in the hottest place on Earth. © Joel Santos – http://www.joelsantos.net

http://bit.ly/1D3ZRNJ

Lava DemiGod by Joel_Santos

In the volcano Erta Ale, Ethiopia, some shy eruptions warns you about the presence of a lava lake, a rare natural phenomenon on our planet. Gradually, the activity ceases and the murmur becomes a black and opaque silence, mimicking its hardened surface. Time runs slowly, but it’s disturbed by the hiss of the contained pressure; the volcano’s anxiety increases and, in its core, an eruption shatters the crust and, like a divine act, triggers a chain reaction, breaking up the lake’s surface in tens of lava bursts rising in the air, increasing the surrounding temperature up to an intolerable level, capable of drying and cracking our skin. Shortly after, the lava’s drumming begins to slow down; the vibrant yellows and oranges become a dry and viscous hue of these colours, falling slowly into a solid, quiet and calm state. The scars heal and close, ending a cycle that, when this demigod volcano desires, will be repeated until the mother of all eruptions create a new lava lake, somewhere in the hottest place on Earth. © Joel Santos – http://www.joelsantos.net

http://bit.ly/1D3ZRNJ