The Uyuni Salt Flats

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January 19th 2010

Published: January 22nd 2010

El Salar de Uyuni / The Uyuni Salt Flats After Rurrenabaque we headed to Uyuni, which you can get to after a 10 hour bus ride south of La Paz. The small town of Uyuni is rather unremarkable except for the number of stray dogs you can spot at dusk. It's one of those towns which would not exist were it not for the large number of tourists passing through. As my Lonely Planet guide puts it, it ... Read Full Entry

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Salt drier

Boy sealing salt packages

Salt crystal

Funny kid in hat

A young boy in a large hat trying to steal some money. Very funny.

Right in the middle of the salt flats

Cactus

This one is probably 700 years old

Emu

Brought as a chick to serve as a tourist attraction, Uyuni is quite clearly not its ideal environment

Nice view

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Cave in Incahuasi island

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Polygons

Polygons should be visible on the salt floor. The perimeter of the polygons is made of ridges of salt which are formed by water escaping the underground in the heat.

Tour group

In a salt hotel

No salt hotels are now allowed on the actual salt flats, so this one has been transformed into a museum.

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