Danakil Depression, Ethiopia

Just got back from a trip there and it was utterly surreal. Each landscape more alien than the next, the oppressive heat, and the absolute scale of it all is impossible to capture. Very uncomfortable for the majority of the time, but sleeping outside at night under the stars once it cooled down (to 85 Fahrenheit) was perfect. In order: boiling hypersaline springs, the caldera of the Erte Ale volcano, the salt mountains, sulfur springs in Dalol, sunset over Assale Lake salt flats, the salt flats themselves, and the desert past Lake Afdera.