Like so much of the Atacama, it’s incredibly remote, and peaceful – the only sounds you’ll hear are bursts of laughter from those attempting to swim while bobbing up and down in the lagoon.

The Atacama Desert stretches across Chile in a staggering diversity of discrete landscapes. While it can be a challenging place to call home, it is a playground of adventure for intrepid visitors.

Flamingos feed in Laguna Chaxa, a salt-rich lagoon in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It’s a location that flamingos have adapted to live in over millennia. But each year, is still a struggle ...

Salty water in the Atacama Desert is the perfect environment for microbes. Hildegarde/Moment/Getty Images We’re at the driest nonpolar place on Earth, but Gómez-Silva knows there’s water here ...

The Tara Salt Flat sits at 14,000 feet in the northern Chilean Andes, at the eastern edge of the Atacama Desert. Some 250 miles to the west lies the Pacific Ocean and, in between, a vast, near ...

EXCLUSIVE Arid, remote and irresistible: Not much grows in Chile's Atacama desert - except your appreciation of its wonders Chile’s tourism numbers rose 84 per cent from 2022 to 2023 ...

He adds that the Atacama salt flat is a “unique ecosystem” as it’s connected to the eastern, southern and western edges of the desert. For Chocobar, the Indigenous guardian, there’s little ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile sits in the rain shadow of the Andes Mountains. ... Eventually, there will be nothing left. Desalination plants, which remove salt from ocean water, ...

This alien environment, which was previously unknown to science, is made up of a system of lagoons surrounded by vast salt plains. They sit in Argentina’s Puna de Atacama, a high plateau desert more ...