2015-04-27: El Gigante del Atacama

After visiting Humberstone and Santa Laura, I directed the car up north and went to see the a petroglyph, el Gigante de Atacama. It is believed that some indigenous culture created it around 900 A.D. It is not clear what it depicts. Most scholars believe it to be a shaman.

 

El Gigante de Atacama: The Petroglyph in a Distance
El Gigante de Atacama: The Petroglyph in a Distance on the Western Slope of the Hill

 

El Gigante de Atacama: The Petroglyph
El Gigante de Atacama: The Petroglyph

 

El Gigante de Atacama: Mars-like Landscape
El Gigante de Atacama: Mars-like Landscape

 

El Gigante de Atacama: Foot Print of Giant Tracking Shoe -- my Tracking Shoe
El Gigante de Atacama: Foot Print of Giant Tracking Shoe — my Tracking Shoe ;.)

 

El Gigante: The World in the Rear Mirror
Heading back to Iquique: The World in the Rear Mirror

 

El Gigante de Atacama
El Gigante de Atacama