Salt Flats, Uyuni, Bolivia

While in Bolivia we did a massive detour from Potosi out to Uyuni where we stayed two nights and visited the Salt Flats. These salt flats are the biggest in the world and for most of the year are under water. Some of the area in the salt flats is ploughed up and the salt is processed for use throughout South America. The salt flats stretched as far as the eye could see and were extremely impressive. We drove out onto the salt flats for 80km to where we got some awesome photos.


We decided to make a day of it out at the salt flats and filled up the chilli bin with beers. (Couldn't find any ice in Bolivia to get the beers cold as ice is not required with such cold temperatures at night) In the back ground is Bernie the truck we travelled Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil on, at this point in time he has broken down in front of the military headquarters, just managed to get it going before having to leave Uyuni. Had a BBQ out at the salt flats as well.


As we were getting onto the salt flats there was a random train graveyard that somehow the Bolivians had turned into a tourist attraction. It was like a big rusty childrens playground really where you could climb through all the trains. Pretty random!


These mounds of salt have been harvested up by different families. Each family has an area that they slice layers off the flats and mound it up to be dried and bagged for sale. The salt flats were really wet under foot and the ground was really cold.

The main attraction for tourists in the Salt Flats is taking pictures where depth perception is lost. I'm actually about 10 metres behind Callum in this picture.

Again a lack of depth perception. This is just a toy dinosaur about 8 inches tall.

And a small tower of the empty beer cans which me and Dave tried to conquer.