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El Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) is located 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of San Pedro de Atacama, in the north of Chile in the Cordillera de la Sal, in the Atacama desert. It has various stone and sand formations which have been carved by wind and water. It has an impressive range of color and texture, looking somewhat similar to the ...
May 21, 2024 · Visiting The Salt Caves In El Valle De La Luna. It took around 20 minutes to reach the first stop, Cuevas de Sal Cañon, or salt caves. Impressive rocks, a pale rusty colour jutted out in long ridges and peaks. On close inspection they were beautifully intricate, as though cascading waterfalls had frozen and been turned to stone.
Aug 21, 2024 · Valle de la Luna, or “Valley of the Moon,” located just outside San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, is a surreal and breathtaking landscape that feels like a journey to another planet. This unique desert valley, part of the larger Atacama Desert, is known for its lunar-like terrain, with jagged rock formations, vast sand dunes, and salt flats that have been sculpted by centuries of wind and ...
Valle de la Luna is a fantastic moon landscape that is a part of the Cordillera de la Sal (Salt Mountain Range) belonging to the Los Flamencos National Reserve. It is a small depression of salt ground, 1,650 feet (500 m) in diameter, that exhibits odd sculptural shapes. These are the result of a sequence of transformations on the earth's crust ...
Aug 4, 2020 · The Best Time to Visit Valle de la Luna. There is no best time to visit the Atacama Desert as the whole year truly is a great time. Temperatures during the summer months (January, February, and March) reach highs of 27 ° C (81 ° F) and lows of 16 ° C (61 ° F) which seems pretty pleasant. And winter (June, July, and August) isn’t much ...
Mar 1, 2024 · Visiting the Salt Caves in Valle de la Luna. Our tour started at 4pm and our first stop was at Cuevas de Sal, a place made out of soft salt/sandstone rock. Because this rock is made out of salt and sandstone, it literally washes away when it rains here, so every year the scenery changes with new channels and gullies being carved into landscape.
El Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) is located 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of San Pedro de Atacama, in the north of Chile in the Cordillera de la Sal, in the Atacama desert. Valle de la Luna Landscape. It has various stone and sand formations which have been carved by wind and water.
