The Chilean north with its remote Altiplano sits next to the borders of Peru and Bolivia. As one travels through this land of snowcapped volcanoes and bizarre desert, one sees strange sculpted rock formations and endless salt lakebeds where the crystallized salts look like snow on the vast desert floor. Observe the pristine lagoons of intense greenish-blue amidst the countryside of deep desert brown. Geysers fire hot fountains of steam high into the air. Adobe churches stand just as they were built when the Spanish first arrived. En route you will experience a tremendously diverse and rare mixture of wildlife: alpacas, llamas, guanacos, vizcachas, armadillos, flamingoes, wild ducks and hundreds of other species of birds. In the distance volcanoes scratch as blue a sky as you have ever seen.

1. The Altiplano Salt Lakes and Snowcapped Volcanoes: Arica Lauca National Park - Putre