Looking like a painting, Viñales Valley is the kind of landscape you expect a Brontosaurus to stomp across or a Pterodactyl to swoop down into. This morning’s early light enhanced this feeling, with low bulbous clouds constantly racing overhead, creating changing patterns of light which confounded any attempts to shoot multiple frames that might be stitched into a panorama later.
The hills (mogotes) were formed when underground rivers ate away at the surrounding area, collapsing it. Caves, some navigable by boat, remain.
Valley of the dinosaurs:
Fortunately we haven’t yet encountered any of these Arachnids in a live state, although there have been many dead on the road. This is one of the smaller specimens (that’s a 5 cent piece):
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