Kingsley Holgate Initiates Rift Valley Dispatches
In November, intrepid adventurer Kinsley Holgate set off on his latest exploit – The Great African Rift Valley Expedition. What’s more, he is providing Getaway blog readers with a blow-by-blow account of his travels; here is the first in the series:
Last year my team and I were able to embrace their our five African countries. The journey took us to Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, The Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea, but then we got back to find that Mama Afrika was about to give birth to the newest country on earth. So we loaded up the Landies and took a rubber duck journey down the Nile from below the Murchison Falls to Juba in time for the independence celebrations in South Sudan.
We are currently travelling through the Afar triangle, a land of jagged mountains and cliffs, treacherous earth faults, active volcanoes and below-sea-level deserts where temperatures rise to a scorching 57°C in the shade. …
The saltiest body on the planet
We’ve made it to Djibouti’s Lake Assal, deepest point on the continent at -155 meters below sea level, for the start of our odyssey to follow the Great African Rift Valley. With an 80 m thick salt crust in about one third of the lake and about 380 grams of salt per litre of water, Lake Assal is the saltiest body of water on the planet. Ethiopia’s Danakil, here we come.
Book details
- Afrika: Dispatches From the Outside Edge by Kingsley Holgate
EAN: 9781770075047
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- Cape to Cairo: One family’s adventures along the waterways of Africa by Kingsley Holgate
EAN: 9781770071766
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- Africa: In the Footsteps of the Great Explorer by Kinglsey Holgate
EAN: 9781770071476
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