Laguna Salada and Thermal Polque

Warm springs in 4400 altitude meters

Petr Liška
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Inserted: 28.03.2013
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Between the Salvador Dali desert and geysers Sol de Manana is located a relaxing place of Polgue Thermal. Large basin, if it can be so called at all, a place at an altitude of 4400 meters above the ground, fills the vast Salar Challviri, whose western flooded part is called Laguna Salada. Due to volcanic activity a pleasant warm spring originated. It is drained into a simple pool and invites you to have a bath.

Thermal Polque

Until a few years ago it was a natural pool – just surrounded by stones. Now it is concreted. Even so, there is a pleasant and basically almost the only possibility to have a hot bath on the entire salar tour.

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Salar de Challviri

If you do not want to splash around in mini thermal pool or you have a long break here, perhaps because you need to prepare lunch, it is not bad at all to walk around and enjoy the heavily salted scenery.

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Thermal creek

The air can be even 15 degrees below zero, but water is in some places still almost boiling.

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Lagoon Salada

Laguna is lined with layers of salt.

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View of the lagoon and salar Chalviri

From here the path continues towards the geysers Sol de Mañana rises and the lagoon slowly fades into the depths.

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Colorful volcano

View to the colorful volcanoes lining the Dali´s desert is breathtaking.

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