SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — In the southwestern corner of Bolivia, about an hour’s flight from La Paz, the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles ...

The Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest and most staggeringly beautiful salt flat, hides within the folds of the Bolivian Altiplano (or Andean Plateau) where the Andes Mountains are at their ...

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 ...

Crystallized salt sprawls across the vast expanse of the world's largest salt flats in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, Jan. 31, 2014. Barcroft Media via Getty Images, FILE ...

When a thin sheet of water collects on salt deposits, the landscape is nothing short of a marvel. Paradise on earth, Salar de Uyuni, is the world’s largest salt flat and a result of several ...

On my first trip to Bolivia's capital, La Paz, a decade ago, I spotted travel posters for this unique region where the world's biggest salt plain, Salar de Uyuni, stretches toward a bizarre ...

The most popular bar in Uyuni is Extreme Fun Pub. It offers "llama sperm" shots and phallic drinking vessels. Spend an hour in this 1km-by-2km town and you can understand why merrymaking has found ...

If you’re interested in visiting this eerily beautiful landmark, here’s how to get to the Cemeterio de Trenes and what to expect. Train cemetery, Uyuni, Bolivia. Photo by Getty.

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.

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.