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.

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 ...

Photographer and lawyer Michael Kittell captured these colourful images when he visited the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia with his wife, Taylor ... the world's largest salt plain is one of the most ...

It's dawn in Colchani, a grey salt-mining town on the edge of Salar De Uyuni. In the soft light the salt plains take on a pink hue, stretching out into the distance in all directions.

The meandering, bumpy dirt roads, the thin air at high altitude, the ordeal of bringing labor into the blinding white plain of the world’s largest salt flat—all of this stands between anyone ...

Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni provides salt, lithium and even calibration for satellites. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Live Science. Search. Search Live Science. Sign in.

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 ...

The workers of Bolivia's salt plains eke out a meagre living in harsh conditions, but there is hope for change in the future, reports the BBC's Andres Schipani in Bolivia.