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The Atacama Desert

The driest desert on Earth — Valle de la Luna, El Tatio geysers, salt lagoons, and some of the planet’s clearest skies, based at San Pedro.

The driest desert on Earth — some weather stations have never recorded rain. From the oasis town of San Pedro you reach the lunar Valle de la Luna, the high-altitude El Tatio geysers at dawn, flamingo-dotted salt lagoons, and altiplano lakes.

Its bone-dry, high skies are among the clearest anywhere, which is why the world’s great observatories cluster here.

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