Article Lagoon Verde Outlook

The most typical shot from the outlook – pair of volcanoes and Laguna Verde underneath. Weather depends a lot on the season. It may be glum during January-February, but mostly there is azure sky.

The outlook is backfilled with stone cairns on one side and black volcanic stones on the other. Most tourists are tempted to the run down about 20 meters to the shores of the lagoon, but they will certainly not have any better view from here.

Compared to Licancabur it is quite inconspicuous extinct volcano, but it has a spectacular crater. On the photograph it is possible to see small channel connecting the two lagoons – Verde and two meters lower Blanc.

Looking west there is a nice view of the slowly rising massif of Sairecabur. Lake shore is white from condensed minerals.

It is possible to clearly see the neighboring Laguna Blanca from the outlook, which doesn´t look so impressive compared to Verde lagoon and therefore most tourists don´t even want to drive to see it. But they make a mistake.

Nameless volcanic peak dominates the east. Quite in the right there is interesting Zapaleri volcano (5653 m asl), on top of which is the border triangle between Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.