Laguna Del Diamante
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, you want to come with me to the end and slag by your imagination, okay, close your eyes. |
| 0:07.9 | You've been bouncing around in the backseat of a 4x4 truck for more or less 7 hours. |
| 0:14.0 | For a while, you're surrounded by a dry desert, but then, as you approach the Andy's mountains, |
| 0:20.3 | the scenery comes alive. |
| 0:24.2 | When it makes you wow, take your friend away. |
| 0:28.1 | Because you have volcanoes, you have lakes, full of flamingos, you have different colors, |
| 0:34.0 | the color stage, and you are climbing and climbing, and you are alone. |
| 0:39.2 | There's no one else, there's no road, and you are making that road, in fact. |
| 0:47.2 | You drive higher and higher up the side of a gigantic volcano, until you reach a precipice. |
| 0:55.0 | You get off the car and look out over the edge of La Caldera. |
| 0:59.0 | It's a huge volcanic crater, miles across. |
| 1:03.0 | You see all the lakes inside and gays are with 80 degrees void in water. |
| 1:11.0 | That's 80 degrees Celsius, which is about 180 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| 1:17.0 | The water is also toxic, it's e-times as salty as the ocean, and it's filled with arsenic. |
| 1:23.0 | But these gazes of water are also beautiful to look at. |
| 1:28.0 | And in the border of that gays there are different colors. |
| 1:34.0 | And those colors, you know, that each color represents a different community of microbes |
| 1:41.0 | that are working in the same way that the ancestral life workers. |
| 1:54.0 | And ancestral microbes. |
| 1:57.0 | It sounds a little bit like magic. |
| 1:59.0 | But the microbes that live in these boiling, toxic volcanic geysers, |
| 2:04.0 | they can take us back to the origin of human life. |
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