If you read my post from last week, you’ll have learnt all about the magical phenomenon of Desierto Florido (Flowing Desert), that is currently happening in Chile. You’ll have seen how the world’s driest desert has turned into a gorgeous purple colour (check out this post before this one, as it’ll all make much sense!)
I knew we were going to see the purple patches when we took our long weekend trip to explore. But, I didn’t realise how many other gorgeous colours and textures we would see too. Within the desert, there is a national park called Llanos de Challe, which is currently brimming with colour. Of course, this desert is usually very dry and sand coloured! Probably with just cactus. However, it is currently hosting an amazing show of flowers of every colour.
It’s hard to believe that usually, the greens were saw are not usually there, let alone this array of rainbow coloured delights…
We took a short path around part of the park (which took about 90mins), where we got to admire all of the flowers and see a gorgeous coastal view too. 
There really were some special flowers there. Including flowering cactus, which were amazing. I can’t say that I have seen a flowering cactus out in nature before!
Getting to see Desierto Florido in real life was amazing! It was better than I expected it to be, despite everyone telling me that I’d be wonderful. Chile really does know how to put on a nature show! I really had to keep reminding myself that we were in fact in the middle of the desert.
Have you been blown away by a magical natural event?
Marcella xx
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Wow, so incredible! I’ve never seen anything like some of those plants before in my life!!! 🙂
It was like being in a very well kept botanical garden, but all in nature! 🙂
So cool!
Very pretty blooms! #WanderfulWednesday
Thanks, it was very special!
so beautiful! I especially love the flowers surrounded by all the cactus spikes.
I loved seeing all of the, especially the flowering ones!
OMG!! Those flowers and plants look amazing. What a great hike.
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It was great and very flat, so I stopped every couple of seconds to take my camera out 😉
Such a diversity. The desert is not dead for sure. #wanderfulwednesday
Definitely not! It was just brimming of colour 😉
Your leggings match the gorgeous flowers!
Haha, so true! 😉 Not intentional, but it worked well!
I had to remind myself when I was reading your post that you were still in the desert! All of the flowers are so beautiful, and I never would have expected the desert to be so vibrant! That’s so awesome that y’all were able to experience it!
Me tooooo, I kept forgetting as it really didn’t feel like the desert! I am so happy we got to go 🙂
So many fun colors! So cool that you got to witness all of this! I think it’s so cool that there’s a desert next to the ocean, ha! I keep forgetting Spring down there! I was just thinking how it’s so cool you’re getting all these flowers in the fall, then remembered lol
Haha, don’t worry, tonnes of people do 😉 I keep feeling like we are in summer as so far this week of spring is almost as good as a British summer gets!
Beautiful flowers that I have never seen them before !
Same! Luckily we had a leaflet telling us what they all are 🙂
You always have the best pictures! And these desert blooms just blew me away. Who knew the desert could have such pretty flowers?? I’ve obviously never really been to one 😉
Thank you Amy!! I’ve been to this desert at a normal time of year and it’s soooo different!
The white cactus flower is really beautiful! I’ve never seen that before either. So many pretty colors in the middle of the desert! And – I love your leggings!!
It was so beautiful, I couldn’t believe how many colours were everywhere!! 🙂
And thanks, I loved the colour when I saw these leggings!
Ahhh You’re photos are making me want to go SO bad! I really hope I can get up there before it’s all over haha .. I had no idea this area was so close to the coast! Looks like you guys had a blast!
I hope you make it there! Is it still blooming?
Such a gorgeous place! That’s definitely what I needed on this gloomy autumn day in Norway…
Sending you all the spring colours!