Because the Salar de Uyuni is one of the flattest places on Earth, it creates optical illusions of perspective that make for ...

Salar de Uyuni, the larger of the two ... But during the rainy season, the surface of the salt flats is even more interesting. Instead of draining into the earth, the water forms a thin film ...

SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — In the southwestern corner of Bolivia, about an hour’s flight from La Paz, the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles.

The most popular bar in Uyuni is Extreme Fun Pub. It offers "llama sperm" shots ... at the town's modern-day raison d'être: the Salar de Uyuni. This, the world's largest salt flat, extends ...

Salar de Uyuni likely contains the lion's share of the resource — 11.2 million tons (10.2 million metric tons), or about 38% of the world's known lithium supplies, according to a 2012 study.

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is considered one of the most extreme and remarkable vistas in all of South America, if not Earth. Stretching more than 4,050 square miles of the Altiplano, it is the ...

Peter Adams/Corbis Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt lake with a surface of 12,000 square kilometres. It is situated in the southwest of Bolivia at an altitude of ...

Earlier this week I wrote about my trip to Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia’s mesmerizing salt flats where I also stayed in a hotel made entirely of salt. The landscape is vast and barren with no houses ...