The High Altitude Desert in a Full Day

Leaving town to the east and taking the route to the mountains, we'll leave behind the big Atacama basin by the majestic Likancabur volcano, to discover an other world on the Andean high plateau. On the road we'll pass by the Bolivian border, we'll see their lagoons and territory on the distance, driving through the "altiplano", a vast and arid scenery, surrounded by peaks scraping 6000 meters AMSL, you'll know why this is a high desert; the lack of oxygen, the dryness, the high radiation, and very few vegetation, will show us an extraplanetary landscape comparable only with Mars, the red planet. A group of vicuñas or a lonely fox will wake you up from the martian dream. Liquid water flows from those peaks, reaching natural basins, bringing life to the desert. Flamingos, andean gulls, geese, ducks, rodents, reptiles and insects are part of a very unique and fragile ecosystem in the middle on nowhere. Be amazed by monumental natural rock formations, lagoons and more in this visit to the top of the world.