Leaving the salt flats took us to a different landscape of Bolivia.
Even though this looks flat it was not as comfortable as the salt flats and was much more bumpy going until we got to Chile.
The emptiness was far different from what we had seen so far on the trip. Other than our travel companions we only saw people at the lunch and sleeping spots.
We had been driving for quite a long time through uniform landscapes when all of a sudden these rock formations appeared. This is the stone tree, it looks a little more tree like from another angle but that angle had far too many people in the way.
It is an oddly eroded piece of rock amongst other rock in the middle of the flat valley. To the left is desert dunes and to the right volcanoes and mountains. The wind was very strong and with all the sand around it slowly gets sandblasted. The softer bits will disappear more quickly and the harder rock is left behind to leave these odd twisting shapes.
In some cases the rocks just split and fell over leaving very flat surfaces that are sheltered from the wind.
While we were here snow started falling and even with the strong cold wind Kerri was still trying to catch snow flakes. It was done facing the wind as nothing was coming straight down.
Our drive through Bolivia brought us to this cool area for a break.
There were high parts that needed climbing.
However after climbing one needs to take a break.
The volcano off in the distance was active and you could see the smoke rising.
You didn’t have to go that far away from everyone before you couldn’t hear anything. It was oddly quiet with no birds or even much wind making any noise at all.
The border crossing into Chile at altitude was quite snowy.
So Kerri made a snow angel.
It was too dry for snowball fights.
