This is one of the small streets of Copiapo. As you can see, although Gary is right by a nice green tree, look just out of town and the hills are spectacularly barren! And there are hundreds and hundreds of miles of this desolate, mountanous Atacama desert. Below you can see both of us in a ghost town on the way to the Tres Curces National Park... an old mining town abandoned over 100 years ago. Spooky place!
Lagoona Santa Rosa! Snowy volacanos with a sparkling white salt flat below them - and of course the pale blue lagoon and red hills. Very colourful place! Especially if you see the flamingos feeding in the shallow water.
This is also Lagoona Santa Rosa - this time with some clumps of marsh grass at the edge of the lake. We wandered around here for ages - lovely place.
Here Gary is standing on the salt-encrusted shore of Lagona Verde. This lagoon is almost blue-green in colour.
And although Lagoona Verde doesn´t have any resident flamingos, it does have several hot springs along its shores. The geothermal pool in this picture has water about 30 degrees warm - and the minerals stain the underlying rock shades of orange and yellow. Beautiful contrast to the surrounding white salt or the blue lagoon!
Another picture of both Gary and me - thanks to the very friendly trio of Swedes we visited Tres Cruses with!
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