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Harar is a historic town, the fourth largest in the Muslim world. Situated in a strategic position, Harar has been a trade hub from ancient times. Today, the city has 250,000 inhabitants. With its 82 mosques, six gateways and colourful labyrinthine alleys, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. People got to know Harar as poet Rimbaud’s favorite place to live, but it is also famous for its exquisite coffee…

Lake Assale, also known as Lake Karum, is a salt lake in the Afar region of Ethiopia, northeastern Dancalia. It is located 120 m below sea level and is surrounded by a vast salt plain, which is used as a salt mine.Temperatures are extreme and reach up to 50 degrees. Sunsets here are a real blast.

Danakil is an Ethiopian depression once covered by the Red Sea. When the water withdrew, it left a layer of salt deep up to 800 metres. Everywhere you look, there’s salt. In the salt flats of Ahmed Ela, people work all day to break it into pieces and transport it to the village to sell it.

Asso Bhole is an Afar village in the heart of Danakil depression in Ethiopia. Here the caravans heading for the salt pans take a rest stop before climbing up the Saba Canyon. Nomadic tribes live here in the winter, but leave in the summer, when temperatures exceed 50 degrees.
Women of Asso Bhole are the progenitors of all humanity. Here, the remains of the oldest standing biped, lived about 3 million years ago, were found. And it was a woman. Lucy.

Abreha we Atsbeha is a 10th century monolithic church in Ethiopia. The building is semi-monolithic: partially carved out of rock, partially built in masonry. It is located in Tigray region, in the north of Ethiopia. Here there are many well-known Coptic monolithic churches, where take place fascinating religious rites.

Friendship between men and hyenas is an ancient tradition in Harar, Ethiopia. Every night, outside the city walls, a young man feeds them mouth to mouth…