Floating salt crystals
Like little boats, strangely shaped salt crystals sometimes float on salt lakes or in saltworks: hopper halite or fleur de sel.
Tag: Argentina
Iguazú Falls
At perhaps the most spectacular waterfalls on earth (Argentina/Brazil)
Quebrada de Humahuaca
A valley steeped in history with brightly coloured mountains, colonial towns and pre-colonial ruins in northwest Argentina
Valles Calchaquíes (with Quebrada de Cafayate, Cachi and Los Cardones)
Colourful canyons, pretty colonial towns and cacti in the triangle between Salta, Cachi and Cafayate (Argentina)
Talampaya and Ischigualasto (Valle de la Luna)
Bizarre rocks and the oldest dinosaurs in the world (Argentina)
At the toe of Aconcagua
At the highest mountain in the Andes (Argentina) — and the highest outside Asia.
Patagonia
Two months on the southern tip of South America
The Petrified Forest of Sarmiento
Petrified trunks of Cretaceous palms and conifers in the Patagonian steppe (Argentina)
Perito Moreno National Park and trek to Cerro San Lorenzo
Lonely wilderness, Patagonia as you imagine it: The scarcely visited national park in Argentina offers impressive views and solitude and the third highest mountain in Patagonia towers above the steppe as a wall of ice and rock
Cueva de los Manos
Early history in a beautiful gorge (Patagonia, Argentina)
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego
Hikes at the “End of the World”: Views, bays and bogs in Tierra del Fuego National Park (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina)
Perito Moreno Glacier
A walk on perhaps the most fascinating glacier in the world in Los Glaciales National Park (Patagonia, Argentina)
Trek to Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy
Hunting for the best light at the most beautiful vantage points at the foot of the famous granite mountains in Patagonia (Argentina)
Bariloche
Hikes in the hinterland of the “Argentinian Saint Moritz” (Nahuel Huapi Traverse and Cirquito Chico)