With so many wonders in the world, old and new, it’s hard to narrow it down. But we’ve selected 10 incredible wonders of the world, for travellers to visit, admire from afar, or simply dream about. Danakil Depression is mentioned third next to Phraya Nakhon Cave in Thailand and Living root bridges, India.
Danakil Depression, Ethiopia(3rd Place)
There are some corners of the world that travellers just don’t see – or can’t. Ethiopia’s remote Danakil Depression is not only one of the hottest places on Earth (it can top 50ºC), until recently, tensions with neighbouring Eritrea made it a no-go area.
Now peace has descended, the planet’s most surreal landscape has opened up. Regular tours now visit the area to glimpse an alien land shaped by the divergence of three tectonic plates. Here, glowing green and yellow acid pools gurgle from the cracked earth to form woozy, sulphurous mounds.
Vast salt flats bleach into the horizon and electric-blue lava belches from volcanoes. It’s a place like no other. The route in is via Ethiopia’s city of Mekelle, then on to the parched northern Afar region (the Depression stretches from here into Eritrea and Djibouti).
Trips rattle past the active volcanoes of Erta Ale and Dallol, where starry skies and fiery flames illuminate the night and nomadic caravans trade in fresh salt, building flexible lives around the arid climate. It’s an unforgettable setting and a haunting insight into our planet’s evolution, raw and untamed.
“Did you know?
Ethiopia’s Awash river is rare in that it doesn’t flow into the sea; instead it creates a chain of saline lakes in the Depression that dry up to form salt pans.”
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Source: Wonderlust
