Radiant flowers blanket Chile's Atacama desert

Flowers bloom on the desert in the Llanos de Challe national park, at the doors of the Atacama desert, 600 km north of Santiago, Chile. An exceptional year with a 50 mm rainfall helped the more than 200 species of autochthonous flowers, which don't grow elsewhere, 14 of them in risk of extinction, to spread out a colorful blanket over the world's driest desert. Antoine Lassagne / Agence France-Presse