The Salar de Uyuni contrasts the salt flats with lagoons with their coloful flamingos, a cacti-covered oasis and the famed salt hotel. Lithium has recently added to the value of this huge salt pan.
The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia's southwestern altiplano is a high-altitude salt pan, considered the largest in the world, and a compelling destination for its wide open, blindingly white expanse, the lagoons with their coloful flamingos, a cacti-covered oasis and the famed salt hotel. Take this photographic tour and you wont need sunglasses, sunscreen or suffer altitude sickness!
Adventure Travel Agency invites you to discover Bolivia. Salt Flat of Uyuni specialist, Laguna Colorada, Laguna Verde, Cooperative Mines in Potosí, and see the Dinosaour Tracks in Sucre." Comments from clients add to the content of this site.
Thumbnail sketches from Fototrek about salt flats volcanoes geysers and flamingoes on the Chile border.
"Salar de Uyuni and Salar de Coipasa are salt pans or playas in southwestern Bolivia that lie on the central Andean Altiplano at an altitude of over 3600 m. More than 75 playas exist in closed basins, making the Altiplano the largest basin of interior drainage in South America."
"The Salsr of Uyuni (salt desert) is the name travellers use for a 3-4 days tour of Bolivia's plateau area (Altiplanos). The tour is done using a jeep that goes through breathtaking sceneries."
