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The van crew. |
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The way begins along the Train to
the Clouds (El Tren de las Nubes) track. |
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The green color of the mountains is
caused by the copper compounds. |
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A glance to the ragged Andes. |
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Indian natives. |
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Jacob tries to smoke the coke
leaves. |
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The red color is caused by the iron
compounds, the green one by the copper compounds. |
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Another charming view of the Andes. |
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A church on the way. |
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Santa Rosa - museum 3 200 meters
above the sea level. |
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Santa Rosa - museum, a comparison of
the skull of man in various stages of the evolution. |
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Santa Rosa - museum, stone
paintings of the Indians. |
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Santa Rosa - museum, mummy. |
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Santa Rosa - cemetery. |
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Santa Rosa - a way to the former
Indian village. |
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Santa Rosa - ruins of the former
Indian village. |
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Santa Rosa - our expedition in front
of the ruins. |
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Santa Rosa - a cactus detail. |
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Santa Rosa - ruins of the former
Indian village. In the sixth century lived over two
thousand people here. |
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Santa Rosa - ruins of the former
Indian village. |
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And the way continues ... |
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San Antonio de los Cobres - a
pictorial town in which we had the lunch. It is a pity
we have no photographs of the town. |
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San Antonio de los Cobres - repair
of our tire. |
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San Antonio de los Cobres - the only
one photo which Paul did in the town. |
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Salt plain Salina Grande near the
horizon. The length of the plain is over 90
kilometers. |
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Aldebaran Group for Astrophysics on
the salt plain. |
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Detail of the Salina Grande
surface. |
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Detail of the Salina Grande
surface. |
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Salina Grande - extraction of the
salt. |
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Salina Grande - extraction of the
salt. John tastes the resulting product. |
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Salina Grande - knocker statue from
the salt. |
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A road meanders in the mountains. |
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A sheep's flock over the road. |
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Lamas in wide open space. Later we
saw them domesticated. The indigenes manufacture cloth
from the lamas' wool. |
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High in the
mountains there was a rest of snow. |
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The rest of snow
in the Andes mountains at the end of winter. |
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Rock shapes -
organ. |
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From the way
back. |
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The erosion forms
beautiful shapes. |
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Purmamarca - a
church with the ceiling made from the cactus wood. |
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Purmamarca - one
thousand years old tree. |
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David bought a
poncho and a hat in the Purmamarca
and began to infiltrate into the native
environment. |