The Traveller: Latin America: A journey to Moon Valley (and no need for a rocket) Volcanoes and valleys, salt flats and geysers - Chile's Atacama desert is more lunar than earthly. The Independent - London | December 2, 2000| | Copyright 2000 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

NEIL ARMSTRONG and Buzz Aldrin must have felt like this 31 years ago. I looked out of my window as our plane made its descent, easily imagining the quickening heartbeat and surge of blood the two men must have felt as they looked out onto a view never seen by Man. The landscape below me looked more lunar than earthly, its jagged peaks and deep valleys cast in an impenetrable, dark shadow. There seemed to be only two colours - rust and black - and there was nothing to give you a sense of scale. No road, no building, no tree, not even a blade of grass.

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