The medanos or sand dunes are one of my favorite places to go early in the morning, or even a cool evening during a full moon. Coming from Aspen, I miss the pristine beauty of the 5 feet of snow drifts. The sand dunes is my replacement. The Medanos are only located 3-5k from town towards Salta. There's a pull off where a statue (shrine) is that leads you to the road to get to the heart of it. The second I hit the dunes, I take off my shoes and let my feet sink a bit in the soft sand, I then walk in a maze for hours, up and down huge sand drifts. At times putting my shoes back on, as it is in the middle of the desert with lots of stickers, but if you stick to the most pristine dunes, you don't have to! Now with such beauty, you have to wonder what created them. We found out our first winter here, the wind roars down the valley of the Quebrada and makes these amazing formations. Believe you me, I wouldn't want to be in the middle of the dunes when one of these wind storms hits, which what we experienced was about once every few weeks. Anyway, all the other days, it's worth going and extremely photogenic. They are ever changing, you can almost never get the same picture twice as they change character daily with the weather and wind!
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