Crossing the Atacama from the coast we arrived at the Salar de Atacama (Salt flat of Atacama). By now the landscape was so dry that along the way there was only bare rock and sand. I picked up a piece of orange that some previous travellers one had dropped, and it was so dry I could shatter it. Some mining for Lithium is undertaken on the lake and the salt tailings pictured are stockpiled for further processing and transportation. We climbed up one of them for a view of the Salar, and I took a tumble from the top causing myself minor injuries.