Four colleagues, myself plus some other folks decided to go check out Lake Assal. We had a convoy of four Toyota Land Cruisers. I was the driver of one of the SUVs with two of my work buddies as passengers. We drove through Djibouti City and then out west along Route 1 passing through a couple of villages along the way. The Djibouti landscape is made up of mostly broken steppe, boulders, rocks, dirt, with a few scrubs and trees. The villagers and city folk had many goats, a few donkeys, and there were even a few Camels to be seen. Driving in Djibouti was an experience all by itself! The road leading down to Lake Assal had some bad potholes.
Lake Assal lies at 509 feet below sea level and is even more salty than the Dead Sea. We could float with no effort at all. Once one started to dry off you cold see the salt begin to crystalize on your skin. On the way there we saw the Djibouti "Grand Canyon". There were a couple of vendors selling very basic souvenirs - mostly geodes and some obsidian (volcanic glass).
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