Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

by arslion on January 20th,2010 in Travel & Places

Salar de Uyuni – Bolivian Salt Lake and islands

The Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is perhaps one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. A magnificent area with an impressive Salt Desert (the world’s largest), active volcanoes, tall cacti islands and geyser flats, it exists like an alien mirage, something completely out-of-this-world…

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(image credit: desman) One travelogue goes like this:“…We finally reached the salt flats. Imagine being surrounded by endless white salt covered by a few inches of water. Without any reference points the sky meets the salt and creates an odd illusion that objects in the flats are flying. I had never seen anything like it… The truck drove through the salt flats and stopped at an island full of cacti. We had lunch on a table made of a large salt tablet and eventually stopped at a hotel made completely of salt.” – here the salts are gathered… 304076989 29b8badc84 Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

(image credit: calimero74) – bizarre islands with giant cacti: 304077622 26b1b3c341 Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

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(images credit: leo61) – “a stone tree”: 304076986 54fb9557a8 Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake 304078264 c318f5e907 Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

- a haunted train cemetery: 304077617 0eee4e84f7 Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake 304078268 d844ac368e Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

- a geyser’s valley: 304077619 dd1516586b Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake 304078263 2a3da300d2 Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

(image credit: leo61)

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(image credit: desman) 304076988 6b7d11bb1f Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

(image credit: desman)

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