Eroded landscape awaits visitors to Colombia's Tatacoa desert. The basin covers some 330 square kilometers, and was deemed the "Valley of Sadness" by the conquistador Jiménez de Quesada, who passed through the area in 1538.
The desert is actually a dry tropical forest, but highly eroded badlands are the area's most popular attraction. By zooming in on a small area of the weathered hills, I was able to lose a bit of the sense of perspective and scale--the biggest ridges in this composition are merely a dozen feet tall!
Joe, superb image. I'm surprised this is its first rating