Bolivia | 2019

Bolivia's salt flats, primarily the vast Salar de Uyuni, are the world's largest salt pan, a surreal, white expanse formed from prehistoric lakes on the Altiplano, famous for mirror-like reflections in the wet season, optical illusions, and unique sights like cacti-covered islands and a train graveyard. Salar de Uyuni is one of South America’s most phenomenal attractions. The vast expanse of white, glistening salt stretches across 10,582 kilometers of the Altiplano and can even be seen from space. Layers of salt are sandwiched between sedimentary deposits that reach a great depth of 10m in the centre of the flat. Laguna Colorada, (translated to Red Lagoon), is a shallow, hypersaline lake in the remote southwestern region of the Altiplano, within the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve in Bolivia and located at an elevation of approximately 4,278 metres (14,000 ft) above sea level