STANDING TALL

High in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Liz Humphreys visits a lodge—and a landscape—like no other.

- Liz Humphreys

ABOVE The pool at Tierra Atacama.

COULD YOU SEE yourself biking 11 miles to a salt-crusted lagoon, where you could wade in and float in the turquoise water? Would a five-hour horseback ride to the Salt Mountains sate your craving for adventure? Or would you prefer a more contemplative pursuit, such as a highaltitude walk with a view of mineralstreaked, rainbow-colored mountains?

These are the kinds of questions my guide, Paola Silva, asked me when I checked in to the newly reopened