Ethiopia: Danakil – Dallol Salt Flowers

Another otherworldly feature in Danakil – incredible salt platforms or flowers as well as salt towers. The whole area sits on a volcano (in fact, the only active land volcano below sea level on Earth) and changes all the time. At some recent point this area was covered by water and full of geysers and fumaroles and fountains and the salt evaporated into these elaborate shapes.