Salt flats

After the lagoons, we stopped by a big salt flat.

Funny pictures...


You really do see some odd things in South America.

Salt Lake Lagoons

The next tour I did was to several high altitude salt lake lagoons. One was so salty that you just naturally floated. It was almost hard to swim because you were so buoyant. It was such a strange sensation!

Moon Valley

Salt formations

San Pedro de Atacama is a tiny town in northern Chile with lots of amazing sites nearby. My first day there I went on a tour through the desert. First stop - these salt formations that have been carved by the wind and water over years and years.

Leaving Argentina

I finally said goodbye to Argentina for good and headed once more into Chile. It was a little sad! These are some views from the road.... the fun mountain roads in Argentina and then the desert of Chile.

The hill of seven colors

From Salta I headed north to a city I had previously never heard of - San Salvador de Jujuy. I went there purely because of a photo I saw on a postcard in Salta of this hill with multiple colors in it called "El Cerro de los Siete Colores." From Jujuy I traveled an hour north to this tiny town called Purmamarca where you could see the hill. All the colors were amazing! I'm not sure if these pictures do it justice, but it was definitely worth the journey.

Salta by day and night

Next stop on the itinerary was Salta (in northern Argentina), a nice 24 hour bus ride from Iguazú where I was surrounded by breast feeding mothers and young children. Anyway, Salta was nice and this little church was right up the street from my hostel. It looked cool during the day and lit up at night.