It’s a long way to the Gate To Hell, and the roads are not the best in the northeast of Ethiopia. The Erta Ale Volcano is located in the Danakil Desert, Ethiopia, where the Afar, a tribe of nomadic shepherds, live, or rather survive. ...

The Erta Ale will probably not become a destination for mass tourism in the near future, at least as long as the journey there is relatively strenuous and dangerous, and so the Devil can still enjoy his rest for a while, as sooner or later his customers will somehow go to Hell!