Envision yourself in a calming, untainted place where the sky and earth meet on an infinite horizon, the air is thick with peace, and the ground shiny. This setting is not from a fantasy story. It is ...

Why it's incredible: The salt flat is the largest on Earth and contains a huge chunk of the world's lithium. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching roughly 4,000 square miles ...

The biggest salt flat on Earth is considered by many to be the world’s largest natural mirror. A team of scientists wondered if that’s actually true, and the answer is—sort of. Reading time 2 minutes ...

It's a desert, but there's no sand. It's a desert but there are no camels, just pink flamingos. Salar de Uyuni is a salt desert that stretches across 4,085 square miles of South America. It's twice ...

Rising from the endless white expanse of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia’s Salt Sculpture Park offers a striking visual contrast to ...

Explora has unveiled a new private guided nomadic journey across the border of Chile and Bolivia. Running seven to 11 nights, “Travesía Atacama & Uyuni” invites travelers to visit the Uyuni Salt Flat ...

Salar de Uyuni is perhaps Bolivia’s best-known geological wonder, thanks to its blindingly white landscape. From December through April, rainwater blankets the salt-crusted surface, creating a mirror ...

At certain times of the year, nearby lakes overflow and a thin layer of water transforms the flats into a stunning reflection of the sky. This beautiful and otherworldly terrain serves as a lucrative ...

The Uyuni Salar in the Bolivian altiplano is the world’s largest salt flat. In this image acquired by PRISMA in January 2021 the satellite captured a portion of the salt flat border, north of the ...

Explore the Salt Sculpture Park in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Set in the world’s largest salt flat, these handcrafted ...

Honeycomb patterns form in salt deserts all over the world, for example in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley in California or in the Salar de Uyuni in Chile. These enigmatic salt structures attract ...