Salinas Grandes are the largest deposit of Halite, ("table salt") in the Puna Region of Jujuy with an area of 220 sq km. The north-south oriented basin at 3500 m a.s.I is also known as "Guayatayoc - Salinas Grandes".

Dog watching his shadow. I spent the night in Susques in a very basic hotel. So basic that they didn't even had keys for the room doors.

After 155 km I arrived at the Argentinian border. How does that matter? Well, I drove the distance three times, that's why. And here is how it happened: It was actually unavoidable considering that you leave Chile at the Aduana station in San Pedro and enter Argentina at the Paso de Jama, which are 155 km apart from each other. Now if you are told in Argentina only that your car documents are incomplete, you have to return to square one, which is in Chile. - It's...

On my way up to the Paso de Jama, I drove for hours thru this uninhabited high plain. Sometimes a couple of vicuñas showed up where water was gathering. - Here and there I stopped for short hikes to a points of interest. But I had read that the Chilean army had mined the territory to the nearby Bolivian border, so this knowledge hampered my explorer curiosity. However slim the chances of hitting a landmine might have been, loosing a leg wasn't worth it. Let alo...

Licancabur (5920 m) is a volcano on the border between Chile and Bolivia. It dominates the landscape of the Salar de Atacama area. Its ice-covered crater lake is one of the highest lakes in the world, and despite air temperatures of -30 °C, it contains fauna. - Right next to it is the only 200 m smaller volcano Juriques.