A visitor takes snapshots of the bloom on the Atacama desert, at the Huasco region some 600 km north of Santiago, on August 26, 2017. In years of very heavy seasonal rains a natural phenomenon known as the Desert in Bloom occurs, making the seeds of some 200 desert plants to germinate suddenly some two months after the precipitations. / AFP PHOTO / Martin BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)