In the morning the weather was still a little uncertain so the National park was going to close at 4pm. As a result our day tour to the Valley of the Moon was brought forward to an earlier departure time which was no big issue for us. We love deserts so to us Valle de la Luna was quite breathtaking in an almost brutal way. The erosion was staggering. A silent stark moonscape with strange alien salt and clay shapes carved into the landscape everywhere you looked. Salt, pulverised rock, wind-worn sculptures – a moonscape, if one could imagine what the moon might look like.
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| You could walk, cycle or drive - you guessed our preference! |
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| Lindsay, our other passenger and our guide walk around this quite large hill while I stayed to explore the salt encrusted rocks |
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| Give a rock formation a name and people will visit. Creative erosion |
We climbed to a couple of old abandoned salt mine. The sparkle and weird clustering of salt were quite ‘lovely’. Salt was a huge commodity here. |
| It's a landscape that needs to be be seen to believed |
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| Under the rock crust there were quite cavernous holes caused simply by wind, water and salt over time. |
We ended the day parked on a high stretch of road at ‘Piedra del Coyote’ which looked over the convoluted Luna valley – . Here our jolly driver served us wine and cheese etc and our delightful guide sang us a plaintive love song in the setting rays of the sun. Very romantic. She was the daughter of a Shaman and has taken on her father’s healing role so that the art/craft is not lost from their family. Amongst other things, she makes herbal remedies. She is also a music therapist. Her English was not brilliant – and our Spanish was worse - but we all managed, with the help of the other passenger, a Brazilian whose English and Spanish were very good. Somehow you always manage.
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| Quite magnificent |
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