#Explore Danakil Depression #Visitafar
Salt Mountains of Dallol
Only a 2-minute drive away is the Salt Mountains. They are massive, solid salt crystals up to 30m high. It’s cool to explore the enclosing caves, walkways and all manner of angular shapes. Many of the shapes are pretty sharp.
Hop back in your 4×4 across the salt flats, you can visit numerous other eruptions. The first we visited was 15 metres away from the lava and had a mix of 82% potassium and 18% sulphur giving it an oily texture. The second was pure potassium and the third was pure sulphuric acid. The last is highly dangerous but all are unfit for human consumption, and birds apparently, they see the water and take a drink and the toxic acid kills them pretty quickly, unfortunately, you’ll see evidence of this by the pools.
