Alberto Villegas knew Chile’s flowering desert as a herder and protected it as a ranger

For much of the year, Llanos de Challe National Park is dry and sparsely colored. Cacti rise from gravel and bare hillsides. Seeds remain underground, sometimes for years. After sufficient winter rain, flowers cover parts of the coastal desert in white, yellow, violet, and red. Most visitors arrive during the few weeks when the bloom [Continue reading] The post Alberto Villegas knew Chile’s flowering desert as a herder and protected it as a ranger appeared first on Rhett Ayers Butler .