Salar de Uyuni

“Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt flat. It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia. The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar. The crust serves as a source of salt and covers a pool of brine, which is exceptionally rich in lithium. It contains 50 to 70% of the world's lithium reserves, which is in the process of being extracted. The large area, clear skies, and the exceptional flatness of the surface make the Salar an ideal object for calibrating the altimeters of Earth observation satellites. The Salar serves as the major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano and is a major breeding ground for several species of pink flamingos. Salar de Uyuni is also a climatological transitional zone since the towering tropical cumulus congestus and cumulus incus clouds that form in the eastern part of the salt flat during the summer cannot permeate beyond its drier western edges, near the Chilean border and the Atacama Desert.”

Salar de Uyuni also know as "The sky mirror".In order to see this beautiful scenery, so I started my journey to Uyuni.

This place can be say that is totally full with salt. Even the morning market at there also selling products that made by salt such as artwork. Walking along the road, I can see that there are a lot of workers are carrying out the salt mining and salt production activities.

There is a interesting hotel in Uyuni. The hotel was build by salt.Even the furniture inside the hotel also made by salt. Salt bed, sad wall, sad sofa and etc. Unique right?

The scene of Uyuni is the element that most attract me to visit the place. You will see all white in front of your eyes but there are not snow, there were salt! Besides that, the reflection of the sky through the water also amazing! You even cannot differentiate which one was sky and which one was land!