2nd May - Geysers at Dawn, Hot Springs and a Green Lake
We left the lodge at 5.00 in the morning, driving out in to the dark past the Laguna Colorada, heading south towards Chile. Just before dawn we could make out the shape of steam billowing and mixing with the frosty air. We had reached the geothermic area of Sol de Manana or morning sun, very appropriate. We were up at 4580m so it was pretty nippy. We were given the customary twenty minutes to look around and I set up my tripod. The sky was reddening in the distance and I got some pictures of the general area and a geyser (although apparently not a geyser according to Wikipedia but a bore hole in the geothermal field). Mairi posed in front of the 'not a geyser' but Naomi came in a bit late and hadn't realised that I had asked Mairi to stand still for a long exposure. The sun was coming up fast as we drove off and headed for some more steam and hot springs past some beautiful mountains catching the warm early light. There was a lot of activit...