Travel Guide Ardoukoba

Here, between the Goubet and Lake Assal, lies an area unique in the world, a paradise for geologists and vulcanologists, a treatise on geomorphology in the open air. Few places in the world allow you to contemplate with such ease the movements and the perpetual work of the earth's crust. As in Iceland, you can walk on a very visible fault, especially since the eruption of Ardoukôba (opening of a 12 km fault). A mushroom volcano, Ardoukôba was born and died in one week in November 1978. A veritable sea of black lava, shiny, sometimes smooth, sometimes tormented and chaotic descends between Ardoukôba and Goubet.