Taking the Disco Sour!
This is a video we took on the largest salt lake in Argentina, Las Salinas Grandes. Here they “mine” or grow the salt under the desert sun, dig it up, dry it, then pack it into sacks for export.
We took a small diversion off the main pass from Chile to Argentina and had tea in the middle of the salt industry.
The Salinas Grandes are an incredible sight. The salt forms homogenous hexagons of around 1-2 feet in diameter, divided by small ridges, where the crystals accumulate as the ground water (from surrounding altiplano mountains) evaporates under the perishingly pure sunlight. This surface formation extends into the nothingness… broken by little except the road and some deceiving mirages.
The lack of a near horizon makes judging middle distances very difficult. Thus with clever positioning you can appear to lift someone with one hand and pick up a Land Rover with the other! After taking lots of perspectiveless pictures of ourselves and the Landie, I thought it might be fun to video the Landie for the Land Rover Club Chile (and the rest of the YouTube world). So here it is! Enjoy!