Salar de Uyuni during the dry season (© Elena Vazquez)
The Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat. It is very impressive to drive through what looks like a large white desert. Legend tells that the salt flat was formed because of the giant people living in the mountains, more specifically the tears and breast milk of a woman grieving over her fleeing husband. Science tells that the flat used to be a giant lake that formed into the salt flat because of the excess sediment. There is liquid still under the salt covering, and out guide warned us that many adventurers who don’t know the salt flat and decided to go off on their own had sunk into the softer parts of the flat.
And for those of you wondering it really is salt. We tried it.
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