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email [email protected]Tim Sonmez works in sales in
London, and spent a month in PeruI was in the middle of a
seven-month trip through
Latin America from Mexico
to Chile when I visited the
desert dunes of Huacachina
in southern Peru with some
friends I made on the road.
We were sitting atop one of
the highest dunes in the
area, watching the last few
moments of a vivid sunset,
when I turned around and
spotted a group of three
sitting in isolation in the
distance. I was struck by the
scale and beauty of the
sweeping dune behind
them, and how the
advancing sunset gave the
desert a Martian-like orange
glow. This photo reminds
me of how small we are in
the scheme of things, and
how beautiful the desert’s
vast emptiness can be.HUACACHINA, PERU
The sands
of time
As dry as Huacachina’s
sand dunes appear, they
conceal a few small
oases, and lie just west
of a stretch of prize
agricultural land around
the city of Ica