I visited Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, which is the largest salt flat in the world. During my trip to the salt flat, I encountered beautiful wild flamingos, red lakes, and an island of cacti.

Covering 4,050 square miles, the Bolivian salt flats extend much farther than the eye can see. Because the Salar de Uyuni is ...

Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat in Bolivia. It’s not just big; it’s also full of natural wonders. Underneath its surface, there’s 11.2 million tons of lithium.

Find out why Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia is on TIME’s 2021 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places.

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.

Item 1 of 5 Piter Condori, 11, takes pictures of a tourist to earn money for his family, at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia March 27, 2022. Picture taken March 27, 2022.

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A mummified body has been found Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni. Picture: Buses ride through the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, in the Altiplano in southwestern Bolivia, on September 28 ...

Shooting the salt flats was the culmination of a week-long Bolivian road trip Wu and two companions took last July. Between the freezing nighttime temperatures, high altitudes (the Altiplano ...

Compared with other salt flats like Salar de Atacama in Chile, which has a salt crust more than 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in some places, Salar de Uyuni is "pretty thin," McKnight said, with a ...