An Entire, Otherworldly Avenue of these Alien Specimens in Western Madagascar                        

With their fat, smooth trunks and striking splay of branches, baobab trees look like they belong somewhere in outer space. Around 50 of them line a dirt road in the country’s Menabe region and are thought to have been here for around a millennium.This arid stretch of the Atacama Desert lives up to its name. Valle de la Luna means “Valley of the Moon” and the cracked landscape is, indeed, about as lunar as you’ll find on this planet. It’s a world of jagged rocks and sand dunes giving way to broad, white salt flats and offers some of the greatest stargazing opportunities on Earth.

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