Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Located in the Danakil Depression (or Afar Depression) in the Afar Region of ...

The vegetarian platter at Erta Ale, the new Ethiopian restaurant in Lowertown St. Paul. (Jess Fleming / Pioneer Press) The space has been changed slightly — the open kitchen/sushi assembly area ...

The latest in my Volcano Profiles series, this one on Erta Ale in Ethiopia. The lava lake in the crater of Erta Ale. Selected resources of Erta'Ale: Bizhourd, H., Barberi, F. and Varet ...

News out of Ethiopia has 5 tourists visiting Erta'Ale - German, Hungarian and Austrian - along with an Ethiopian police officer were killed by unidentified gunmen (referred to in the news accounts ...

The lava flow from the Erta Ale volcano reached very significant levels, filling the ancient crater and spreading to the historic camping cabins for the first time in 20 years. The Best Movies of ...

We were standing at the base of a volcano in northeastern Ethiopia —one that we were ... Our five-car convoy had been idling at the base of Erta Ale for more than an hour, waiting for the ...

I peered over the craggy rim of Erta Ale, Ethiopia’s most active volcano, at the lava lake below. Beneath a gassy haze, boiling, ruby-red, molten rock thickened and rose up, swelling like a ...

Five Europeans trekking on the slopes of the famed Erta Ale volcano were killed and two others captured a week ago in the region's worst attack on tourists in years, which Ethiopia promptly blamed on ...

The latest in my Volcano Profiles series, this one on Erta Ale in Ethiopia. The lava lake in the crater of Erta Ale. Selected resources of Erta'Ale: Bizhourd, H., Barberi, F. and Varet, J., 1980, ...