2013/12/19

The Atacama desert (part 2)

I know I am repeating myself, but the scenery in the Atacama desert is overwhelming. 

Luxurious green velvet mosses on rock formations

After spending the night in a place that I don't remember at all, but for the extreme cold and altitude misery, we packed the four wheel drives again to go further through the Atacama in the direction of the Salar de Uyuni. We saw many impressive rock formations, old lava fields, volcanoes. A landscape we will never forget.

Rocks in the middle of nowhere.

A window with a view....

More rocks and volcanic fumes in the distance.


Endless roads

Lava fields and volcanoes

Basalt pillars

This rock is cut through right in the middle.


It looks like sphinxes

Magnificent scenery.


There are rivers there....

....but most of the time there aren't.

A stone tree

And this is the stone eagle.

Slices of rock


More formations




Great volcanoes.

The end of the day.... almost a fata morgana.




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