So I finished up in the desert and here are the last of the pictures. Millions of years ago, two mountain ranges formed next to each other, trapping a lot of sea water, which evaporated to form a very flat salt plain.
And apparently flamingos love this.
And here is me with some flamingos. I was like ¨´hey flamingos´´ and they were like ´´hey jon.´
Interesting fact; flamingos are only pink because they eat these tiny shrimp that have lots of .. in them, the same thing that makes carrots orange. If you raise a flamingo at home, it will just be white. There are only a few hundred thousand left. Weird things keep interfering with their reproduction habits. This is a llama named Micheal Jackson (because of the white and the black), who escaped last year and ran into one of the major nesting areas of the flamingos on a cold night and freezing all the eggs. The Micheal Jackson:
We visited a couple villages in the deserts with population of less than a hundred, so of which are the original settlements founded by the early spanish explorers, and havent changed too much since. The women play the dominant role, doing all the farming and cattling. We also went and visited some lagunes. This is a picture of laguna miscanti :
In the background is the miscanti volcano which is very sacred to the villagers nearby, and no one is allowed to climb it unless you are in tribe, which you can only do by marrying in... so if you really wanted to..
Im heading down south, where there are lots of glaciers and penguins, and I will update soon.
Where I am going right now: pucon chile
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