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High and dry – Atacama Travelogue, Part III.
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This may be my favorite of your Atacama posts! I appreciated your change of tune on flamingoes (I think I might have had that same reversal of feelings when I saw a huge flamboyance of flamingoes in Africa). The mirrored mountain scenes are artistic wonders, and of course the wide open road photos call out to me quite urgently. Then there are the skies …
All great scenes and descriptions, Fabrizio!
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Thank you so much Lexi 🙂 it was indeed a great place to drive through and some fab memories.
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Oh so now we like the flamingo do we? 😉 Haha. Just love the photos of these stunning landscapes. So beautiful!
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Well, love perhaps is too much of a strong word! Let’s say I’m no longer thinking them worthy only of Don Johnson’s villa…
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This gorgeous desolate place. Those lakes are like mirrors of Heaven. I wanted to see those rock formations during my visit, but didn’t make it. “One of those true wanderers you sometimes meet”…what a feeling that is.
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Yeah! Not the kind of life I’d live, I’ll admit but…still, a nice guy nonetheless. The world needs more fellas like that guy, hope he’s doing OK.
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Your landscape photographs look like watercolours. Stunning!
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Thanks Jolandi! 🙂
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I echo what Lex said in an earlier post. Not only did you successfully capture the grandeur of the natural landscape in this part of South America, but your story also evokes a sense of adventure, and contemplation, most people rarely feel nowadays thanks to the the ‘drive-thru tourism’. I can’t stop looking at that photo of vicuñas with the snow-capped volcanoes in the background. Just stunning!
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Thanks Bama 🙂 Really appreciate it. Incidentally that photo caught the attention of a Chinese border guard too… but that’s another story.
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20 years of 2-packs-a-day, I did that and am done with it. I have yet to see a volcano because I have a deep understanding that I will make one come alive (but every October flamingos flock to see me). I have yet to see a desert. It’s quite enough to see desertification before my eyes in Tuscany which is turning into almost Africa. This year a vineyard I passed daily for six years and came to love is no longer.
I enjoy your writing tremendously, and these views are heavenly. Thank you for them.
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You’re welcome… and sad to read about Tuscany 😦
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If anyone ever wonders why someone would choose to go out into the boondocks and commune with desolation, they need only come read this post. The tone, the pictures, the descriptions; they say it all.
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Thank you so much Dave, this really means a lot.
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