![]() Our driver-cum-guide Juan was driving a group of six ladies (my Canadian friend, a random Colombian group of four, and I) into the heart of the Bolivias salt flats. My itinerary for a 3 day Salar de Uyuni tour included visiting a train cemetery, trick photography on the salt, visiting the geothermal geysers, seeing colorful lagoons where flamingos colonize, hopping around boulders, and sleeping in salt hotels amongst other once-in-a-lifetime things. Walking on the Salar could be the closest we can get to walking on the moon.īut I didn’t know all this until I took a Bolivian Salt Flats Tour from Uyuni towards the end of my South America backpacking trip. The copper mountains with the mix of an occasional snowy volcano try their best to fringe the horizon. When you stand upright in these bizarre salt flats of Bolivia, you see a salt desert billowing into the infinity and beyond. On top of the vastness, the Salar del Uyuni is special because it is high up near the Andes at a height of 3,600 meters above sea level. ![]() The Uyuni Sala r are the world’s largest salt flat, extending over 9,000 square km. You must have seen the regular mountains, rivers, glaciers, deserts, but before the Salar de Uyuni, I had never seen salt flats, at least not as gigantic as the one in Uyuni. An Unforgettable Trip to the Salt Flats of Bolivia
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