Flight to Samara after having breakfast at our guest house we'll drive to lake Afdera it is a wonderfully bright green lake surrounded with black basalt mountains behind. Here you can see modern salt extraction contributing the lion share consumption of our country. There is a hot spring nearby where you may take a bath and like the dead sea float on the lake. 75 km (2h) Altitude 80 Meters below sea level. After a couple of hours stop at Afdera & having lunch we procced to Ertale volcano. You will start the 20 minutes hike up to the crater rim of the Erta Ale volcano. The Erta Ale volcano has been in a constant state of eruption and registered as one of the few lava lakes of our planet. Once arrived at the top you will descend into the caldera and proceed to the crater’s edge and be part of the few people who have see with there own eyes the Erta Ale lava lake who came back after 5 years of pause at the end of last year in December. After having Dinner Overnight.
In a matrass admiring the stars. Feeling the basalt lava field of Erta Ale. (At the car parking of Erta Ale) 155 km (6h) Altitude Erta Ale 613 Meters above sea level.
