Bolivia: Salar Uyuni – Endless Salt Pans & Optical Illusions

alar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat covering an area of over 10K sq km (4k sq miles). It is also one of the most extraordinary landscapes on Earth! It is located in the Bolivian Altiplano at an elevation of ~12k feet (3.5k m) and is one of the driest places on earth. There is salt to horizons in all directions here. The salt crust covers a pool of brine which contains ~70% of the world’s lithium reserves (it is often called the “Saudi Arabia of lithium”). Flatness and lack of objects creates an opportunity to play with depth perception illusions. It’s all totally surreal – a perfectly flat, blinding-white expanse of hexagonal salt tiles stretching to the horizon.