Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, ... Crescent-shaped sand dunes rise and fall steeply, some up to a 100 metres high.

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile has been a bit of a secret destination for those who love stargazing and other-worldly hiking terrains. ... This is also the place to climb sand dunes, ...

The Atacama Desert’s 41,000 square miles of diverse terrain includes spurting geysers best visited at dawn, wind-sculpted golden dunes perfect for surfing, salt lagoons for a bracing float, and ...

The dunes of Salar de Gorbea, however, are an exception that proves no rule at all. They, too, are white, because they are also made of gypsum. But the gypsum in question includes crystals more ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is a place of surreal contradictions: Delicate flowers, blooming only once or twice a decade, suddenly cover a bone-dry landscape. Huge dunes of discarded clothing appear ...

A hiking tour through part of Chile’s Atacama Desert reveals sand dunes as far as the eye can see, some of the world’s best stargazing spots, and some surprising meals – including seafood.

Take a swift hike into the steep sided gorge and down to the the River Puritama to find a stunning desert oasis. Puritama means “warm river” and its waters can average a temperature around 91 ...

The desert’s dunes are the highest stationary sand dunes in the world (the highest reaching 1,600 feet) ... the Atacama Desert, which receives a meager 0.004 inches of rain per year.

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile — A solitary grave sits near the top of the 10,000-foot pass, a simple monument with a yawning view of the bleached and scarred valley so loved by British geologist ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile, July 8 (Reuters) - The sand dunes of Chile's Atacama desert, the driest on the planet, have been blanketed by white and purple blooms in recent days after early rains caused ...