Dehradun, July 14 -- The Orange Magma Lake

All Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

We were at Erta Ale, a flat shield volcano in Ethiopia, near the Eritrean border in the far north of the country. It is a very active volcano with the last eruption in January of this year. Now we are not barking mad to walk on top of solidified lava of an active volcano without any special reason. For us the reason was to witness a once in a lifetime view of the liquid upper mantle of the Earth pulsing and pounding in the magma lake. This magma lake could be viewed from few spots where the ground had 'opened up' due to intense upward pressure of the super-hot semi-liquids below. Rest of the places inside the crater rim were covered with solid...