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Swifty
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Northern Afar

Tue 25 Oct, 2011 12:45 am

Here's some snaps of the desert in the northern Afar region of Ethiopia. The hottttest place on earth, but cooling down now that we are in the "autumn". Barely reached the low 40's when I was there last week.
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wadi and low hills
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Re: Northern Afar

Fri 28 Oct, 2011 7:41 pm

nice swift..amazing looking place
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Re: Northern Afar

Sat 29 Oct, 2011 5:32 am

looks amazing, what do you do about water in a place like this?
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Re: Northern Afar

Sat 30 Jun, 2012 7:43 pm

Thee are a few perennial flows in some of the wadi's, as there is a lot of rain in the highlands that drains this way, especially in the monsoon June - September.
I've been back since, here are a few more snaps taken on my Mamiya 6 and souped up at home.
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Rocky desert
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Wadi scene
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