WHERE IS RACHAEL NOW: burned, but happy still in sunny IQUIQUE
The next day we headed to the Valle de la Luna, or the Valley of the Sun. We first entered a canyon, cañon, called the cuevas del sal which means the caves of salt. It started out as dunes and then we wound through a small canyon between hills of salt. Everything was made of salt or in some process of becoming it. The landscape was absolutely alien. We then headed to some spots along the way to the Valle de la Luna including Los Tres Marias (rock structure that has religious connotations though I am unsure of what and why since it is just a single rock), Valle de la Muerte (Valley of the Dead), and a high lookout point where we could see one of the other famous rock structures called El Catedral (which was shaped like a giant sports stadium). The rock structure named the Luna was no longer there due to it;s falling in the last earthquake. We ended the day at sunset over looking the Valle de la Luna to watch the sunset. In reality, the sunset was to our backs and we watching the mountains opposite it drastically change color. They went from a hazy blue to yellow, then to rosy pink to an almost vivid pink.
Tres Marias
Canyon
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