Lake Assal is a lake that attracted you. Lake Assal is situated on the
southern border region Tadjoura, touching Dikhil Region, about 120
kilometers (75 miles) west of the city of Djibouti. It lies 155 meters
(509 feet) below sea level in the Afar Depression and its beach composed
of the lowest point on land in
Africa and the second lowest
depression of land on Earth after the Dead Sea. The beaches here are
made of pure salt all. If you want to swim in a single stroke, you can
just float and read a book. Salt cake all along the shores of Lake Assal
is. all birds will be here in the salt crystallizes. And not
surprisingly, the vegetation does not grow here. here a very bright and
very hot. Lake Assal is saltier than the Dead Sea.
Lake Assal is
located in the Danakil Desert, the location where some other salt lakes
can be found. This area, at the head of the Great Rift Valley, is the
lowest point of land that can be found in the African continent, to 510
feet (155 meters) below sea level. If it were not for the barricade of
the mountains, Danakils, burdensome than the interior of the Red Sea,
Afar Depression, including Assal itself, will be under the sea floor.
Have you already heard about the salt caravans crossing the Sahara,
there is also a salt caravan traveling from Lake Assal to the Ethiopian
Highlands. The Afar, a nomadic tribe, has been cut slabs of salt from
this lake for centuries and continue to do so. Only the upper crust can
be used and it takes skill and strength to cut properly. Slabs are
shaped into a rectangle that weighs about 7 kilo grams and raised to the
camel’s back. Each camel could carry twenty blocks of salt. Hundreds of
camels and their owners make the trip every week. Lake Assal is also
there. The discovery of the mountain and offers a unique tour in
Ethiopia that include direct witness of salt caravan. In lake Assal is
also a region known as the Afar Triangle, part of the soil radiate out
from a point one hundred miles north of Addis Ababa and to the Red Sea
coast and the Gulf of Aden. This area is one of the most troubled in the
world, forming the intersection of African and Arabian tectonic plate
and the setting for continental drift.
