Beckinsale great-grandfather was a native of Burma, and Kate says that as a child she had a "very Asian appearance". Beckinsale’s stepfather, who came from a working-class family, thought it was pretty funny to hear the curses of the smart girl and he encouraged her for that.

In the north-east of the country Ethiopia, in the hot Afar Region there is a famous volcano with the splashing red-hot lake in its crater, where viscous lava boils instead of the water. Such volcanoes in the world are only five.