Living in Ethiopia | How People Cut Salt by Hand 125 Metres Below Sea Level | 4K Travel Documentary

101 / Living in Ethiopia | How People Cut Salt by Hand 125 Metres Below Sea Level | 4K Travel Documentary Explore life in Ethiopia, the cradle of humankind, where the African continent is slowly tearing itself apart. This 4K travel documentary takes you 125 metres below sea level into the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest places on Earth all year round, and then up onto the roof of Africa. On the salt flats, Afar miners wake in the dark and walk two hours to cut 30-kilogram blocks from an ancient seabed with axes and crowbars, each block worth only a few dollars. This 4K travel documentary follows the caravans of roughly 1,000 donkeys and 2,000 camels along paths older than nations, and climbs to Erta Ale, a lava lake that has burned without rest since 1906. Our 4K travel documentary also explores the Afar region where Lucy and Ardi rewrote human origins, the Simien Mountains and their gelada herds, the eleven rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, the cliff monastery of Abuna Yemata Guh, the walled city of Harar where men feed wild hyenas by hand, the Omo Valley, and the coffee ceremony that gave the world its morning. Watch this 4K travel documentary to discover Ethiopia through its land and its people. What surprised you most? Comment below and subscribe for your next 4K travel documentary. CHAPTERS 00:00 — Living in Ethiopia 01:28 — The Danakil Depression: 125 metres below sea level 04:27 — Cutting salt by hand for a few dollars a day 05:53 — Erta Ale: a lava lake burning since 1906 06:55 — Lucy and Ardi: where humanity began 08:16 — The Ethiopian wolf, the world's rarest wild dog 11:29 — Geladas: herds of 600 on the roof of Africa 14:23 — Aksum: Africa's oldest kingdom & a 160-ton stela 17:51 — Lalibela: eleven churches carved down into rock 19:51 — Abuna Yemata Guh: a church up a sheer cliff 23:28 — Adwa 1896: the nation Europe never conquered 26:07 — Harar: 82 mosques & the men who feed hyenas 27:19 — The Omo Valley: cattle, bull-jumping & body paint 32:44 — Coffee: Ethiopia's gift to the world #LivingInEthiopia #Ethiopia #EthiopiaDocumentary #4KTravelDocumentary #DanakilDepression