Las Salinas Grandes - salt lakes

Suddenly coming across those salt lakes after driving across desert like landscape for an entire day was a real highlight. The salt flats are on the Altiplano at about 3,400 m and seem to go on forever! And we tasted the salt - definitely VERY salty!

All the way up at 4170 meters!!! We did suffer a bit from altitude weakness but it wasn´t too bad. I guess if you are not walking up a hill you do not feel it so much.

Craig was enjoying the Schumacher drive down the zig zag road into the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a vast gorge of vividly coloured rock with giant cacti in the higher parts and a green oasis around the river below.