US Amb visits tourist attraction sites in Afar state

Addis Ababa, January 15, 2020 (FBC) –US Ambassador to Ethiopia, Michael A. Raynor, visited yesterday different tourist attraction sites in the Afar regional state.

Accompanied by Awal Arba, Chief Administrator of the regional state, the ambassador visited Erta Ale, Ass Ale and other sites.

The visit aims to promote tourist destinations in the region and increase the number of tourists travelling to the region.

‘Erta ale’ is the Afar word for “The Smoking Mountain”.

It is one of the few volcanoes on the world that have an almost persistent lava lake.

It is an isolated basaltic shield volcano, 50 km wide, rising more than 600m from below sea level in the barren Danakil depression.