Rainbow Mountain "Hike"

The "hike" is an easy half hour walk along the road or a single track trail that cuts closer to the mountain, but still parallels the road most of the way.

Purmamarca's Rainbow Mountain in Northern Argentina

April 18th 2023
Purmamarca has everything you need in a small town: cute plaza, friendly people, good food, wide variety of places to stay, interesting culture and spectacular landscapes. This blog (and all my blogs) is on my website with lots more photos. I went to Purmamarca for its famous hike around the hills behind town, which they call Rainbow Mountain. Having seen Cusco’s Rainbow Mountain and the Paint ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more

24th April 2023

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Purmamarca
Breathtaking vistas I first learnt of from watching The Dakar Rally on TV when it was in South America. How lucky are you to have been there! Lithium -v- tourism? Great question but predictors of what is the bigger dollar that may not be so great for the ecology of the area. Thanks for sharing, Heather. This pic definitely heading for "Majestic Mountains" thread in the Photography Forum. Check it out.

Ezeur
Heather Jasper

Precedents for Argentina's Environmental Protections
Lithium might be a powerful global industry, but so is the salmon farming industry and a small community in southern Argentina managed to fight them off. Here's hoping the people of Salinas Grandes can defend their land and water rights. If a new method of processing lithium without polluting the water supply were developed, I bet the lithium mines would meet less protest.

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