Rainbow Valley

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Duration

5 hours 30 minutes

Overview

We will leave San Pedro do Atacama to the west, visiting Yerbas Buenas first, an area of great historical importance, as it has one of the largest groups of petroglyphs in the region. This place crossed the indigenous caravans that traveled from the northeastern Argentina and the Bolivian Altiplano, and reached the Pacific Ocean. We will find carvings and drawings on the rock very diverse such as llamas, camelids, birds, monkeys and dogs. Next, when crossing Matancilla, we will see the Rainbow Valley, called in this way by the different colors that the mountains have because of of minerals. The earth, reddish, beige, green, white and yellow colors show the different concentrations of salts, clays and minerals. We will take a walk, covering its rock formations and the unique landscape of the place.