Nevada's Black Rock Desert, home to the Burning Man festival, has nothing on Bolivia, especially its surreal southwestern corner. The highlights of the isolated region are extreme geographic ...
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Why Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni Is Not the Giant Mirror We Thought It Was
For years, Instagram made us believe that Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni was Earth’s biggest mirror. Visitors post dazzling photos of clouds, mountains, and themselves doubled against the thin sheet of ...
Perky vicunas canter across a DayGlo-orange lagoon. Suspiciously extraterrestrial-looking green blobs of vegetation have invaded patches of stark desert, and bunnies with long, fluffy tails hop ...
The landlocked (and usually overlooked) country of Bolivia in South America is home to the largest salt flats in the world, visible by astronauts in space. The Salar de Uyuni is 25 times larger than ...
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 ...
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. There is no ...
The salt flats of Uyuni have triggered international interest among energy companies due to its lithium reserves, and Bolivia hopes the metal could power a green revolution when electric cars reach ...
The image shows part of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt flat in the world. Occupying over 10 000 sq km, the vast Salar de Uyuni lies at the southern end of the Altiplano, a high plain of ...
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