Northern Chile - en Bus

This was the second photo I took from the bus during a pretty testing three-day voyage from Santiago de Chile to, eventually, Cusco in Peru. The leg from Santiago to Arica, on the border of Chile and Peru, was approximately thirty hours worth of the most barren land I´ve ever seen. Being Australian, that probably means I haven´t been doing the job properly in my own country. That being said, this region of Chile, between the Andes and the Pacific, does contain the driest desert on Earth. And some tyres.