San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) - The Salt Flats

Me at the Atacama Salt flats
Originally uploaded by louise_parmenter.

After an emotional departure from Argentina I arrived in San Pedro de Atacama (a tiny village within the vast, dry Atacama Desert) where I met up with Esteban. Previous to his arrival I went to the Atacama Salt Flats, which provided a surreal snowy-like landscape of a vast crusty salt floor in part covered with a shallow film of water and surrounded by hills.

Here are the photos of the salt flats and the salty laguna we visited on route, plus some photos of San Pedro itself and my journey from Argentina across the Andes to Chile.