JigsawPhoto: Diego Delso — CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
About this place ↓About El Tatio Geysers at Dawn, Atacama
El Tatio lies at about 4,300 metres in the Andes of northern Chile, a few hours’ drive from San Pedro de Atacama. With around 80 active geysers, it is the largest geyser field in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the largest in the world. Visitors set off in the dark to arrive at sunrise, when the freezing air makes the columns of steam tallest and most visible; temperatures can fall well below zero. As the sun warms the valley, the steam fades away. Water here boils at about 86 °C because of the altitude. This photo shows a spouting geyser and steaming pools.
Puzzle tip: start with the white column of steam; the shining pools come next, and the mountains and sky last.
- Location
- Chile, South America
- Theme
- Nature
Moving pieces: Drag a piece with your mouse or finger. With a mouse you can also click a piece once to pick it up — it follows the pointer until you click again to set it down.
Joining pieces: Drop a piece near its matching neighbour and it snaps into place with a click. Joined pieces move together as one group. There’s no fixed spot to build in — assemble anywhere on the table.
Play As: Pick how many pieces to cut the picture into, from 12 up to 300. Switch on Hard shape at the bottom of the menu for trickier pieces with three knobs on every side. Changing either setting starts the puzzle over.
Table: At the very bottom of Play As, choose what you build on: leather, light oak, green felt or charcoal. Your choice is remembered for every puzzle and doesn’t restart the one you’re on. Light oak table photo by simon on Unsplash.
Pause: Click the timer, or the pause button next to it. The table is covered while paused so nobody can sneak a look; click it (or the timer) to carry on.
Show picture: The picture button shows the finished image as a guide. Click it again to hide it.
Arrange pieces: Lines up all loose pieces in tidy rows at the sides of the table, handy for spotting edges or a missing piece. Click again to scatter them. Pieces you’ve already joined stay exactly where you left them.
Restart: Mixes up the pieces and starts again with the same settings.
Fullscreen: The last button on the bar gives the puzzle the whole screen. Press it again or Esc to leave.
Progress: In the middle of the bar, the counter shows how many pieces are joined, and the percentage shows how much of the picture is done.
Finishing: When the last piece clicks in, the timer stops at your finishing time, and you can play again or try another puzzle at the same size and shape.
Puzzle: Jigsaw Earth — free online jigsaw puzzles of places around the world.
