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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 

Laguna Colorada

Luguna Colorada provided some welcome colour to the otherwise sun bleached volcanic landscape.












At over 4000m the winds are freezing and in the afternoons tear across the surface of the lake.












The rare James flamingo makes it´s home on Laguna Colorada.

Maybe it´s just a very vain bird and likes it because the colour of the lake matches it´s plumage.








A quebrada (Puente del Diablo) provided us with another sheltered campsite out of the howling winds.

We´d ran out of water at this point and spent most of our fuel melting snow to drink.