SALAR DE UYUNI - BOLOVIA

A apparently infinite landscape of pure salt stretches a ways throughout bolivia. 3,800 rectangular-miles of salt flat unfold out across bolivia’s faraway southwest. Salar de uyuni is the largest salt flat inside the world, an endless sheet of hexagonal tiles (created through the crystalline nature of the salt), dotted with pyramids of salt. Despite the wilderness dryness, freezing night time temperatures, and fierce wasteland solar, this landscape isn't always without life. Purple flamingos, historic cacti, and uncommon hummingbirds all live in the salar de uyuni

During the moist season, the salt wasteland is transformed right into a substantial salt lake, albeit one this is handiest six to 20 inches deep, traversable via each boat and truck. Throughout this time, the shallow salt lake perfectly mirrors the sky, growing bizarre illusions of infinity. Within the center of this seemingly endless salty lake is a motel constructed absolutely out of—evidently—salt.

Made from salt bricks held together with salt mortar, the motel and everything inside it, along with the chairs and tables, is crafted from salt. Even as the hotel playa blanca has no energy and little in the way of facilities, and its water must be trucked in, it does offer even greater vital and certainly rarer traits: utter silence, an all-encompassing austere beauty, and an dazzling view of the night sky.

Also worth traveling to are the close by laguna colorado and laguna verde. Laguna colorado is a pink-hued lake filled with lots of purple flamingos, at the same time as laguna verde is a blue-inexperienced salt lake observed at the foot of the volcano licancabur. Its shifting aqua color is because of copper sediments and microorganisms residing inside the lake.