Deep within the high-altitude regions of Bolivia and parts of northern Chile, thrives a strange botanical specimen known as the yareta (Azorella compacta). This extraordinary plant is sometimes called “moss lettuce” or “stone lettuce,” and even called a living boulder or green slime by…
An immense salt-flat stretches to the horizon like nature’s most enigmatic mirror. Here, a seamless expanse of crystalline salt reflects the sky’s ever-changing colors, creating a mesmerizing illusion of the sky and ground becoming one. This otherworldly landscape, with its intricate patterns up close…