Envision yourself in a calming, untainted place where the sky and earth meet on an infinite horizon, the air is thick with peace, and the ground shiny. This setting is not from a fantasy story. It is ...
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Solo Motorcycle Ride on the World’s Largest Salt Flats

Salar de Uyuni feels like another planet - a world of endless white where salt crunches beneath your wheels and the horizon ...
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 stark white salt formations are the result of the evaporation of prehistoric lakes. It is located where Lake Minchin once was 40,000 years ago. This unique ecosystem is an otherworldly experience ...
Rising from the endless white expanse of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia’s Salt Sculpture Park offers a striking visual contrast to ...
Editor’s Note: Anna Mazurek has been traveling the world and working (as an English teacher, photographer, bartender — whatever keeps her moving) as she goes since 2008. She has visited 43 countries ...
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 ...
A mummified body has been found in Bolivia's famous Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat and a popular tourist destination. According to Bolivian news outlet El Potosí, workers recently ...