At more than 3,861 square miles (10,000 square kilometers), Uyuni is the largest salt flat on Earth. The area at the southern end of this inland drainage plain was part of a vast prehistoric lake ...

On my first trip to Bolivia's capital, La Paz, a decade ago, I spotted travel posters for this unique region where the world's biggest salt plain, Salar de Uyuni, stretches toward a bizarre ...

In the shadow of snow-capped — and sometimes smoking — Andean peaks, we sped across Salar de Uyuni, a salt plain so large it looked like an ice sheet stretching to the horizon.

We encountered the Land Cruiser bridge as we exited the Salar and before continuing to the mining town of Oruro, the final stop of our Altiplano loop. We met resistance there when trying to purchase ...

They are the salt gatherers, native Quechua people, who for generations have lived harsh lives picking up salt on the Uyuni salt flats. These are the largest salt plains in the world, covering ...

Whether you’re crossing Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni or the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana, staying overnight on these vast ...

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Bolivia's Uyuni salt flats are the largest salt plains in the world The lunar landscape is the closest thing Earth might have to a void. Nothing is the first word that springs to mind. All one ...