Posts Tagged ‘Andes’

Salar de Uyuni, 12.000 km² of whiteness

Bolivian Altiplano, between 3600 and 5000 meters of altitude, zero infrastructure. Polar cold during the night, 40 degrees of pure sunshine at midday. In this forgotten corner of the Andes, where there are no roads, no electricity, no comfort and no people, stands the largest and most spectacular salt world’s reserve: the Salar de Uyuni. [...]