After visiting the geysers and hot springs, we took a hike to see "special cactus" and an unknown surprise, which our tour guide was VERY EXCITED to show us. The surprise ended up being a beautiful river leading to a waterfall. In the middle of the world's driest desert. Pretty cool in my book.
The waterfall hike concluded our first tour of the day. After a 30 minute lunch break, we headed out on our second tour of the day. This tour took us to the salt flats where we took a swim (or should I say floated?) in a lake with a very very high salt density. It was difficult to enjoy the fact that we could float in the water since it was SO COLD. We had to keep moving around just to make the temperature of the water semi- bearable.
After that, we headed to a large salt lake to watch the sunset. It was beautiful :)
Photo 1: Vicunas. Photo cred goes to Megan Libby on this one.
Photos 2-4: Photos from the cactus/ surprise waterfall hike.
Photo 5: The whole group-- pre- COLD swim.
Photo 6: Photo fun in the middle of Atacama.
Photo 7: Volcan Lincancabur and one of the world's largest salt lakes. Quite the view. :)
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