The drive continues

At the top of the mountains, we entered the Pampa Galeras National Park.  The surrounding land became a plateau, and pampas grass was growing in abundance.

We saw vikuna and llama grazing.

As we descended again, the landscape became much more verdant.  We were back to negotiating switchback roads.  We also began to see strange tall, thin, straight cacti with unusual curly fronds on them.Read more