Alien landscapes in southern Bolivia

For: Daniel Landa

The Flemish… the happy flamingos always come before me. I had happened before in places where no human, lost mangroves in Mexico, in the marshes of Doñana, silvery lakes in Tanzania, zip on the islands of Mozambique… there they were waiting for me to remind me that I was late, to show me that they saw it first and I'm just an outsider in paradise.

Flamingos have a habit of settling in the wonder, are exquisite with the landscape that govern until his flight is refined. They only understand the world in pink plumage, with the neck extended and cheesy with that point which take flight. Aesthetics is what seems to move flocks of flamingos and only take land from another world, because even they have something alien, some fiction.

You are here, I shit on the Flemish, how beautiful is this!

Therefore, when I looked for the first time at the Laguna Blanca Reserve Eduardo Abaroa, I instantly: "Already here, I shit on the Flemish, how beautiful is this!». And there they were announcing that man is not a place any, flying over water mirror, against the profile exhibiting Licancabur. In this part of the world are colorful lakes, their birds and mountains are crowned with snow peeled more than 5.000 meters.

We arrived after touring the Valley of the Moon, the other side of the border, Chilean territory. The valley is preceded by his fame, by reputation mythical place for tourists. But, southern Bolivia presents unceremoniously, Hit. And you feel that your senses collide with those mountains and those gaps and those damned flamingos. How is it that we had not heard of Eduardo Abaroa Andean National Reserve? The truth is that between the valley of the moon and the Salar de Uyuni is one of the most baffling and beautiful of America.

For many miles the eccentricity is routine in this part of the world.

The Laguna Blanca almost touches the Laguna Verde. After the excitement of the dirt roads between red mountains. Loneliness is another major incentive, only there are some bushes yellow and some tourists dizzy looking everywhere and flamingos, clear.

While Eduardo Abaroa has a sharp beauty from the first moment, also reserves the emotional impact of some magic tricks, as the Dali valley. It consists of stones, but are rare stones, large and dispersed that appear arranged along a sandy valley such as surrealism is named the valley. For many miles the eccentricity is routine in this part of the world.

In the middle of nowhere, Earth begins to burn in a collection of geysers that gush from the depths.

Here sulfates form the white shores of the lakes to better frame the color of the water. Shortly after, in the middle of nowhere, Earth begins to burn in a collection of geysers that gush from the depths. And you can not look away from those holes ashen, yellowish, a brown and even orange radioactive. I thought it was fantastic tale that happened to the props. And then, to finish the spell volcanic, appeared some baths from which it was possible to see an open landscape, with iridescent lagoons, of all colors. And in those baths, a group of tourists bathing actually claiming some, to keep track of all sanity.

We were more than 4.200 meters, sleepy by the sight of the lagoon, swaying in the warm water and stunned by the height. So maybe I made it up. But, I made it up because our camera caught the last outburst of nature in southern Bolivia: Laguna Colorada. It was a bloody, and entirely alien. No one lives there because nobody believes. Only the Flemish, Thousands of them this time, invading the imagination of the traveler, impossible to show a landscape and remind us that we who, in reserve Eduardo Abaroa, are out of place.

The music that accompanies the video in this post, new work belongs to Nacho Sotomayor (The Rock Vol. 9), un músico más que recomendable que ya forma parte de la banda sonora de Viajes al Pasado.
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  • Marine carriba ROSSELLO

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    Wonderful, as always. A World Apart

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