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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.

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 ...

For example, in a four-day tour from Tupiza to the Uyuni Salt Flats, you'll stop at many gorgeous Andean must-sees. Although you won't hit the Moon Valley mentioned here, you'll visit another ...

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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 ...