Getting ready for Salar de Uyuni is important because of its remote location and high altitude. To avoid altitude sickness, ...

SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — In the southwestern corner ... roads and the bitterly cold nights at high altitude. We slept inside simple buildings but there was no heat. We had purchased extra ...

Salar de Uyuni's seemingly endless horizon allows photographers to play with perspective and depth of field. At nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, visitors may experience altitude sickness if ...

The problem was that once you leave the Wild West outpost of Uyuni on the edge ... of the 7,440-square-mile Salar de Uyuni, which stretches white to the horizon at an altitude of 11,500 feet.

The Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest and most staggeringly ... traveling is the Andes Mountains is underestimating how bad ...

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 ...

Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching roughly 4,000 square miles (10,400 square kilometers) across the Andean plateau. Uyuni is famous for its gleaming expanses of salt ...

I chose the well-reviewed Altitude Travel’s “Be a Local Walking ... richly flavored and deeply satisfying. Day two of the Salar de Uyuni tour. After breakfast at our (basic but clean) hostel ...

Salar de Uyuni likely contains the lion's share of the resource — 11.2 million tons (10.2 million metric tons), or about 38% of the world's known lithium supplies, according to a 2012 study.