Freelance
photographer Siegfried Modola documents Ethiopia's ancient salt trail,
in one of the world's hottest and most inhospitable environments
Sulphur and mineral salt formations near Dallol in the Danakil Depression, northern Ethiopia
For centuries, merchants have travelled with caravans of camels to collect salt from the surface of the vast desert basin
Men search for a suitable place to extract salt 
Camels from the caravan eat dried grass 
An armed Afar man crosses a river near the Danakil Depression 
A worker extracts slabs of salt from the desert 
A worker ties together slabs of salt 
A worker loads a camel with slabs of salt
A camel herder and salt merchant holds rope for packing the salt 
A camel caravan carrying slabs of salt leaves the Danakil Depression for their two-day journey to the town of Berahile 
Berahile in Afar, northern
Ethiopia. Much of the town's economy revolves around the salt trade; the
biggest building, on the bottom right of the photograph, is a newly
constructed warehouse where salt is stored 
A man lifts slabs of salt on to a truck in Berahile town, Afar, northern Ethiopia 
A man prepares a bar of salt for sale 
A man prepares bars of salt to be sold in the main market of the city of Mekele, northern Ethiopia 
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