Desert Landscapes

There are so many amazing things about Southwest Bolivia. One thing captured here is the presence of wildlife. I think these are Vicuñas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicugna_vicugna), but they may be Guanacos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanaco). I am pretty sure we saw both of these species of wild South American Camelids, but not having read up on them before we left it was hard to know which was which. (We also so domesticated alpacas, which you'll see in a future post).

These wild grasses are probably the food of the camelids. The next three pics are also our first glances at Laguna Roja.


I wonder how often it rains here to create arroyos this deep.
The road was a bit more defined here than it is in other places.