Once Upon A Time in Latin America (29) the driest place in the world. Snow Reflects in Salt Valley

The tour group at 2:50 PM finally departed. It was chosen at this time in order to catch the sunset when we reach the Moon Valley. The scenery was said to be extremely stunning. The tour guide was a standard outdoor girl, dark and capable, fully equipped.

On the bus, the tour guide first introduced in Spanish then changed to English. The problem was that her English was as flexible as Spanish that is really hard to understand.

The first step was to the salt valley. It was the seafloor that was squeezed and lifted after the violent impact of the earth's plate hundreds of millions of years ago. The seawater was evaporated and salt was left and dried in thousands of years to form the salt valley. Next to the salt valley was the Bolivian Plateau and the Licancabur Volcano which was 5900 meters.

All the way there was no grass on the ground. The snow was vast. Columns of salt stand on the dry soil. These crystalline salts sparkled under the sunshine against the snow-capped snow mountains. A little bit dreamy.

The bus drove for a while and arrived at a landscape in Salt Valley. The guide pointed three high and short salt columns standing on the roadside and told us that this was a classic scenery called "Tres Marias" in the Moon Valley. This was a popular place on the web that everyone certainly took photos. On both sides of Maria were large snow-white saline-alkali land extending into the distance. Someone who was curious tasted it. It was really salty.