The Atacama Desert in northern Chile, the driest desert in the world, Salar de Uyuni of Bolivia, the largest salt flats in the world, the magical city of La Paz, the highest capital city of the world, and Barranca, the “Soho” of Lima, above the shores of the largest ocean in the world.

Moonlike landscapes of the desert with its dramatic rock formations and expansive sand dunes sculpted by millennia of wind and water erosion; the colorful lagoons of the Altiplanos of Chile and Bolivia where wildlife such as flamingoes, vicunas and llamas thrive in a rarified atmosphere at 14,000 feet.

A two-week journey into sand, salt, sea, lagoons, geysers, the Piedras Rojas, the magic of La Paz and stepping into the past in Barranca, the “altiplano” of my adventures.