Lake Assal (Lac Assal), a world-renowned crater lake in the center of the country, is 10 times saltier than the sea. This makes it the second saltiest body of water in the world after Don Juan Pond in ...

Here’s is a cool image of two French Navy Rafale M aircraft flying over the lake, one of the most saline in the world: the salinity level of its waters (10 times that of the sea) makes the surface ...

(MENAFN- SomTribune) From a distance, Lac Assal may look like tropical waters fringed with powdery white sand. Up close, it's an inhospitable alien landscape. An illusory paradise At first glance, ...

In July 2017 Djibouti secured $27m in funding from the Kuwait Development Fund for the development of the Gale-Le-Koma geothermal project in the Lake Assal region. The funding deal came on the back of ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Djibouti on Monday, August 26, signed the funding agreements, totalling US $7.5 million, for a geothermal exploration project in the region of ...

Lake Assal, Djibouti – From a distance, Djibouti‘s Lake Assal could be mistaken for a prime holiday destination. Its waters glisten under the midday sun, sparkling in different shades of dark blue, ...

LAKE ASSAL (Djibouti): The line of dromedaries shimmered in the dying evening heat as it followed a trade route used by the Afar nomads of the horn of Africa for hundreds of years. In the distance, ...

I say Djibouti. You say – bless you? A tiny east African nation, Djibouti is one of Lonely Planet’s top places to visit in 2018. Never heard of it? Don’t worry, they’re used to it here. Curled like a ...

From saline basins to remote deserts, the deepest points on each continent reveal a fascinating interplay of geology, climate, and human interaction. According to data compiled by World Atlas , these ...