![On our way to the Valle de la Luna](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-1.jpg)
![En route to Valle de la Luna, we stop off for another gorge-ous sight](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-2.jpg)
![Ditto](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-3.jpg)
![Cairns](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-4-cairns.jpg)
![A rather more modern form of cairn](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-cairns-2.jpg)
![Vertigo prevents a full appreciation](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-badlands.jpg)
![Chilean and Wiphala, emblem of indigenous peoples of Latin America](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-flags.jpg)
![In the sands of time](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-plate.jpg)
![Dune being photographed](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-dune.jpg)
![The 'Tres Marias' formation](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-Tres-Marias.jpg)
![A strange beauty](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-humpack.jpg)
![Fair warning](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-sign.jpg)
![As usual, I lag the group](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-teamscape.jpg)
![A sphinx-like formation](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VDL-sphinx.jpg)
![Signs of recent flooding](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cave-water-action1.jpg)
![Entrance to cave](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cave-21.jpg)
![Salt formations](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cave-3.jpg)
![Coming out](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cave-4.jpg)
![At the entrance of the site](http://johnelkington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cave-5.jpg)
An amazing visit today to the Valle de la Luna. It’s appropriate, given my use of an image of Daniel Craig as James Bond a few days ago at the Recycla Awards ceremony in Santiago, that part of the Bond film Quantum of Solace was filmed here.
For a change, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves, though one thing is perhaps missing here. Fernando filmed me as I ran (only the distance from where the photo is taken to the group in the distance in the 13th photo here) back to the group – even though I had complained that the altitude was getting to me …
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