Moon Valley in Chile, close to San Pedro de Atacama, very much lives up to its name.  Trekking in the heat of the day at 4000m altitude, in the altiplano, literally took one’s breath away.

I took this shot in the mid afternoon, as the shadows of the canyon cast increasingly longer trails across the exposed spikes of the rock outcrops, akin to the vertebrae of the valley jutting out of the ground.