Friday, 30 June 2017

Puna de Atacama

Salar de Atacama in northern Chile is a huge salt flat where water from the mountains flows and dries out, leaving salt. There are some salt lakes there in which flamingos find some vermin to feed on. In the Altiplano higher parts (over 4000 metres above the sea level), some rain falls and there is some grass, on which vicunias (wild ancestors of llamas) feed. It is a national park so flamingos and vicunias are used to tourists and don't run away.











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