Dallol, one of the strangest places I have ever visited, is located in the Dankali Desert in north-eastern Ethiopia. Every morning the caravans are on their way to the salines to load the salt...

In the distance you can see a chain of volcanoes, and one of them is Erta Ale – the gate to hell, as they say here. Standing at its crater lake of molten lava inspires another emotion that the Dankali Desert has to offer, but this is another story.