Afar people are an ethnic group living in the Danakil Depression and earn their living by extracting and trading salt. They have been involved in salt-mining occupations for several centuries, and the Danakil area produces nearly all of Ethiopia's salt. Salt mining sites are located in Djibouti's Lake Asal area, and merchants travel to Dallol to gather minerals, transport them through camels to Ethiopia's highlands and later to Sudan. These nomadic people are infamous for their hostility to visitors. Show more