Tag Archives: Afar

An awfully big adventure

Posted on 19 Apr 2014 by lornaofarabia

Danakil day 1: getting there Over the four-day Easter weekend, Andreas and I traveled with eight other ICS teachers to an area called the Danakil Depression in the Afar region of northwestern Ethiopia. It’s taken me a few days to … Continue reading →

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Holiday in hell? Sign me up!

Posted on 9 Apr 2014 by lornaofarabia

Pursuant to Tuesday’s “don’t go there” post… Some ICS teachers spent last October break in the Danakil Depression in northern Ethiopia, the place National Geographic called the “cruelest environment on earth.” I was sorry to miss that excursion, but we’d … Continue reading →

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