Tour operators recommend four-day tours from Tupiza, visiting Salar de Uyuni on the final day. The star-studded night sky casts the salt flats shades of blue. During the dry season the ground ...

But they are of course taken here on Earth, in Bolivia's Uyuni salt flats to be precise. The flats, located in Southern Bolivia near the country's Tunupa volcano make up the world's largest salt ...

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 ...

Andrew Evans explores Bolivia’s vast salt flats. I can’t think of a worse torture than coming to Bolivia for the first time and then having to rush across the country in under a week.

Compared with other salt flats like Salar de Atacama in Chile, which has a salt crust more than 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in some places, Salar de Uyuni is "pretty thin," McKnight said ...

Clouds are perfectly reflected in the clear salt flats while a rusted train rests atop the vast flat in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, Jan. 31, 2014. Barcroft Media via Getty Images, FILE “Nightline ...

The Salt Flats at Uyuni, or Salar de Uyuni, are 4,086 square miles, almost 100 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, making them the largest salt flats in the world. While on a trip ...

With that role redundant, why didn't Uyuni give up the ghost? Extreme Fun Pub provides the answer: in one of its rooms, the floor is thick with salt. It is during the daytime that Uyuni is at its ...