Lake in the Sky

Lake Chungará is situated in northern Chile, in Tarapacá Region. It is one of the highest lakes in the world. It is near the volcanos Parinacota (20,827 feet or 6,348 meters) and Pomerape (20,413 feet or 6,222 meters). It was formed 8000 years ago, when a major collapse of the edifice of Parinacota produced an avalanche of debris which blocked drainage pattern, thus creating the lake.

The trip consisted of; spitting Llamas, haggling Andeans, a pink flamingo, salt water snowballs, hieroglyphs, yellow-grey long-tailed rabbits, Alpaca meat, an earthquake damaged church, a bus that rolled backwards uphill, a mouth numb from chewing coca leaves, a bus full of altitude sickened people, a vally called Azapa, an life-less desert, shooting with 4 cameras, a cemetery of 400 year old graves, lack of oxygen, a borax factory, a town with a table that kills people, driving along a thousand meter drop, being the only one feeling at home in sub-zero temperature, a mythical landscape and one of the most beautiful sunsets of my life.

A return trip time of 11 hours at a final altitude of approx 14,500ft or 4500m.