Valle de La Luna, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

A wonderful afternoon tour to the Valley of the Moon. In the Atacama desert, there are Salt Plains formed by entrapment and evaporation of ancient seas. With the bordering avenue of Volcanoes to the east, millenia worth of volcanic ashes have mixed with the salts to form a bizzare area of badlands.

The "rock" is extremely fragile, with landforms shaped just as much by the regions annual 3cm of rain as by the constant westerly winds.

We were taken through canyons, over sand hills past towers and left to watch the sunset over the amazing landscape with towering Volcanoes as a back drop. Very cool...

Valle de la Muerte

Almost looks like Utah...

Sunset at the Grand Dune

San Pedro sunset