We drove out on to the surface of the salt pan – flat but cracked into a billion naturally occurring hexagon shapes. Its appearance can change dramatically: in dry conditions the surface can look like snow or ice while at night it glows with reflected moonlight; when wet it takes on the appearance of a colossal mirror fringed by distant, snow-capped peaks.
我们的汽车开到了盐田之上——平坦,但分裂为无数个天然形成的六边形。它的外形会发生戏剧性的变化:天气干燥的时候,它的表面上看上像是雪或者冰,并且到了晚上还会反射出幽幽的月光;而气候湿润之时,它看上去就像一面无边际的巨大镜子,又或是白雪覆盖的山顶。
After two hours’ driving, we made our first stop at Incahuasi, the remains of a volcanic cone that now looks like a small rocky island rising out from the salt, about 45 miles west of Colchani. The Salar was formed some 30,000 years ago by the drying up of a vast prehistoric lake, Lago Minchin, and Incahuasi’s rocks show traces of seashells and coral. Its slopes are dotted with thousand-year-old cacti, and as I climbed up among them with my guide Iván Blanco we began to pant in the thinning air. The view from the summit, 100 or so metres above the surface of the salt sea, is astounding. “Look around, said Blanco. “I’d venture to say that this is the last truly virgin spot on Earth.
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