Final day of our four-day tour of southwestern Bolivia, and we finally made it to the Salar d´Uynui, a vast salt flat covering around 12,000 square km, a bit smaller than Northern Ireland, part of a prehistoric salt lake which once covered most of this region, and containing around 10 billion tons of salt plus other minerals, the extraction of which being how the locals make their living. During the rainy season, it becomes a true lake - just about - with waters around 25 cm high! For more information fact-fans, see here. We were there in the dry season however... We drove out into this vast white expanse just before dawn, waiting for the Sun to rise. The salt is hard to the touch and bright to the eye, and out in the middle of
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