Cebollar is a siding and a tiny station in the middle of a beautiful landscape of volcanoes and "salares" (salt flats). This train is coming from the San Cristobal mines in Bolivia. It carries con... (more)
Cebollar is a siding and a tiny station in the middle of a beautiful landscape of volcanoes and "salares" (salt flats). This train is coming from the Pacific port of Mejillones. It carries empty o... (more)
El salar, el volcano y el tren A train of ore concentrates weighting about 3000 tons (metric) and coming from the Bolivian mine of San Cristobal crosses the “Salar de Ascotan” be... (more)
Dust ! Coming from Bolivia, the FCAB train 1250 is at km 391 of the Antofagasta-Calama-Ollague line. It has just passed the station of Cebollar (km 393). The rough and dusty ro... (more)
A South American "Land Bridge" Train Land bridge transportation means transportation from one seaport to another by railway across continents instead of by ocean ship. A typical ... (more)
The series of pictures in the Andes mountains would not be complete without the ubiquitous llama!
Just another beautiful sight with a soft evening backlight. No need for any additional remark...
The landscape was so different and so beautiful that I was shooting pictures like crazy, filling the memory cards at a speed that I had never reached before. So now comes the most difficult part: ... (more)