Geothermal Field
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Lake Abbe Chimneys
Lake Abbe is a desolate salt lake straddling the Djibouti-Ethiopia border, famous for its otherworldly landscape of hundreds of natural limestone chimneys rising up to 50 meters into the sky. Venting sulfurous steam and boiling groundwater, these hollow stone towers create a surreal landscape often described as a lunar or apocalyptic wasteland. Deeply rooted Afar nomadic traditions hold that the steaming towers serve as chimneys for subterranean spirit worlds, where ancestral ghosts and desert Jinn congregate under the night sky.