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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prehistoric lakes once covered Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni near the crest of the Andes. When these lakes dried up over hundreds of thousands of years, their rich salt content was left behind, and it ...

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.

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 ...