Just Deserts ; Andrew Davies Marvels at the Surreal Lunar Landscape and Salt Lakes of the Atacama Desert High in Northern Chile
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The Atacama desert, which runs from the southern Peruvian border 600 miles down through northern Chile, is one of the most surreal places on the planet. With its amazing rock formations, gigantic sand dunes, colourful lava flows and blinding salt lakes, it's like walking through a painting by Salvador Dali.
The Atacama is officially the driest place on Earth, and parts of it have had no rain since records began.See the full content of this document
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Just Deserts ; Andrew Davies Marvels at the Surreal Lunar Landscape and Salt Lakes of the Atacama Desert High in Northern Chile
Bordered by the Andes on one side and the Pacific ocean on the other, the desert's desolate but beautiful lunar landscape is regularly used by Nasa to test vehicles to be sent to the Moon and Mars.
Yet despite this harsh environment it continues to attract increasing numbers of tourists. San ...See the full content of this document
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