The central Plaza of San Pedro De Atacama - a beautiful view of a conical volcano in the background behind Gary!
This is a photo of me by one of the lagoons in the centre of the Salar de Atacama (Slat Flat of Atacama) - in the distance you can see a beautifully coloured volcano and some tiny flamingos! And the photos below show some slightly larger flamingos (with great reflections in the water), and the salt itself. The salt crystals were incredible - they formed coral-like structures about 30cm in height!
A beautiful blue lagoon - volcanos, flamingos, vicunias... the Alitiplato is stunning! This lagoon is at about 4300m above sea level, making the sky a particularly nice shade of deep blue too.
In the valleys just blow the Altiplano you´ll find a number of llama. The locals here still farm them for meat and wool (and make some very strange garments from the fabrics!)
The Tatio Geysers just before dawn. These antisocial spurters are only active from 6am to 8am... maning we had to leave San Pedro at 4am to see them. It was worth the early start though - look at the colours of the sky.
As the sun came over the mountains the clouds of steam issuing from the geysers were transformed! And the reflections in the pools of water were stunning.
Impressively high trails of steam issued from the geysers - so mush so that it was actually quite difficult to see the water squirted up! But then the temperature was about -5 degrees Centigrade so you´d expect a bit of water condencation. Gary is dwarfed by the clouds in this photo...
After seeing the Geysers we passed by yet more beautiful Altiplano scenary. This stunning shallow lagoon was homw to a flock of flamingos too. Below you can see the desolate landscape of the Lunar Valley... complete with giant sand due and wind twisted rock formations.
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