The Suguta Valley is a low-lying area of salt pans, mud flats and volcanic cones surrounded by awesome mountain ranges. Once, a part of Lake Turkana, the place is one of the hottest and most unpleasant corners of Kenya, a hell-on-earth where midday temperatures can reach 1400 F in the shade. Nomadic Turkana herdsmen bring their livestock here for salt but they never stay long.