Hi there

I just found out about the Hand of the Desert, also known translatedly as la Mano del Desierto. It's quite striking. A hand that rises up like a mountain in the middle of the desert. Really, of course, it's a sculpture with an iron base, made in 1992. Looking at it, though, I could see it dating from thousands of years ago. 

The Atacama desert is pretty extreme in its own right. Colder than other deserts, with the most notable exception being the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. This is an austere landscape far from civilization, and strange to see the great hand there.