Because San Pedro is in the desert many artefacts in the area are well preserved.
Their petroglyphs show that they were very flexible people.
With square mouths.
They made these little points out of stone.
Which they flung with this stick like a lacrosse ball to hunt animals.
This display showed the types and sizes of stones that were needed to carve the little projectiles and spear points.
Continuing along our 4×4 journey of Bolivia we had a stop in the desert waiting for another car to catch up. It was a pretty nice viewpoint to see some of the volcanoes that dotted the landscape.
A few birds came by to investigate as well.
It had been snowing a lot so instead of just brown topped peaks they were covered with fresh snow.
Unlike the salt these cracks are not even hex spaced but random.
It was getting cold so we were starting to bundle up to keep warm.
Leaving the salt flats took us to a different landscape of Bolivia.
Even though this looks flat it was not as comfortable as the salt flats and was much more bumpy going until we got to Chile.
The emptiness was far different from what we had seen so far on the trip. Other than our travel companions we only saw people at the lunch and sleeping spots.
We had been driving for quite a long time through uniform landscapes when all of a sudden these rock formations appeared. This is the stone tree, it looks a little more tree like from another angle but that angle had far too many people in the way.
It is an oddly eroded piece of rock amongst other rock in the middle of the flat valley. To the left is desert dunes and to the right volcanoes and mountains. The wind was very strong and with all the sand around it slowly gets sandblasted. The softer bits will disappear more quickly and the harder rock is left behind to leave these odd twisting shapes.
In some cases the rocks just split and fell over leaving very flat surfaces that are sheltered from the wind.
While we were here snow started falling and even with the strong cold wind Kerri was still trying to catch snow flakes. It was done facing the wind as nothing was coming straight down.
