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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On the whole, the Salar de Uyuni is very flat, with a surface elevation variation of less than 1 m. This makes the area ideal for calibrating satellite radar altimeters – a kind of radar ...

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 has an average elevation of 12,000 feet (3,660 meters) above sea level — but it wasn't always so. Around 5 million years ago, the region where the Andes mountains sit today was ...