The Yareta Plant: The Remarkable Green Jewel of the desert
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…
The World’s Mirror: Salar de Uyuni
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…
Atacama: A Symphony of Extremes
It was early morning, and the sun would soon be beating down relentlessly, its piercing stare never softened even from a passing cloud. But before it gained strength, since this place was high altitude, we were actually quite cold. At night, temperatures dropped to…