Salina del Gualicho, originally uploaded by Marian Florcita.
Just a super quick post to let you know that I am still alive but doing some travelling. This picture is from a recent trip to a Salt desert in the Argentinean Patagonia. Salinas del Gualicho: 72metres under sea level, 450km2. Gualicho is a word deriving from a tehuelche* word meaning: enchantment or curse.
Hours driving in the middle of nowhere, to arrive at 8pm to the place which is a salt mine. It was 8pm and it was still 40C. At noon it had been somewhere around 60C. Not my idea of warm weather… too much.
We had champagne while the sun was setting and then ate some yummy food cooked right there under the stars. The Patagonian skies are known -and apreciated by astronomers- for it’s cleanness… no cities for hundreads of km. We saw the moon rising round, huge, yellow and at an incredible speed to hang itself in the sky and illuminate the whole place. Fantastic!
Today leaving to some virgin beaches. No electricity, gas, water…….. just wild fauna and sea… and us.
* the techuelches were the original peoples whom were dissemated by the mapuches coming from Chile, scaping from the spaniards.
Amazing corner of the world!!! Enjoy, enjoy!!! And show us more pics later on, plz!
Wow, that looks and sounds amazing. What a magical place for a picnic.
Que linda foto! y gracias por compartir la experiencia, no sabía que hay salinas en el sur… y que rico el pollito al disco…ummmm
sigo la travesía desde aqui!
saludos!
Wow, it looks amazing! Enjoy
the salt desert is fascinating! you have warmed me up, it is -11C here…
WOW! It’s been so cold here with snow on the ground it took me a minute to realize you were in short pants! LOL. I used to watch the skies through a telescope….seems a previous life … I’ve heard Patagonia was breathtaking. Enjoy!
que me muero de envidia, nena!!!! disfrutenlo mucho!! ese niño no lo debe poder creer!!!!!
besotes!!!!!!!!
Such a lovely family! Have a wonderful trip!
Que hermoso lugar….y como lo decribes, me han dado tantas ganas de conocer esa parte de la Patagonia…y de hecho que algun dia ire, si que si.
Muchos saludos