{"id":2442,"date":"2022-06-26T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:17:23","slug":"salar-de-uyuni-worlds-largest-salt-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/salar-de-uyuni-worlds-largest-salt-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Salar de Uyuni: world\u2019s largest salt flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>&nbsp;<\/b>is considered one of the most extreme and remarkable vistas in all of South America, if not Earth. Stretching more than 4,050 square miles of the Altiplano, it is the world&#8217;s largest salt flat, left behind by prehistoric lakes evaporated long ago.<\/p>\n<p>We do recommend that you <a href=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/2\/9537\/photoalbum\/bolivia-santa-cruz-de-la-sierra...%20-%20Secret%20World\">visit more of Bolivia<\/a> than just the salt flats, but if you want some epic pictures and an unforgettable experience you will want to put the Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats on your bucket list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Full Salt Desert video on my YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ko6GU2pfcE\">https:\/\/t.co\/ko6GU2pfcE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/saltdesert?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#saltdesert<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bolivia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bolivia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XY3qRmsxKH\">pic.twitter.com\/XY3qRmsxKH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aliki (@AlikiTravelBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlikiTravelBlog\/status\/1540861666883256321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Think 10 billion tons of salt sprawling across an endless desert. The Salar de Uyuni is a 10,582 square kilometer expanse of cracked white salt, left behind when an ancient salt lake named Coipasa dried up thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For mythology lovers we bring the most romantic version of its origin. The legend talks that Uyuni Salt Flats was formed from <b>mother\u2019s milk spilled by the Tunupa volcano<\/b>, when her newborn was stolen. Every year it is her tears that flood this sea of salt in the rainy season.<\/p>\n<p>In your <a title=\"Uyuni Salt Flats tour 3 days\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howlanders.com\/en\/tours-bolivia\/uyuni\/uyuni-salt-flats\">trip to <\/a>&nbsp;will be able to contemplate the biggest natural mirror of the world, where <b>the salt flat and the sky join<\/b> creating a captivating landscape.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2446\" src=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0254.webp\" alt=\"Salt lake Mirror-Bolivia\" width=\"1020\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0254.webp 1020w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0254-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0254-270x180.webp 270w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0254-770x515.webp 770w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0254-369x246.webp 369w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0254-99x66.webp 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is the world\u2019s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Uyuni-Salt-Flat\">salt flat<\/a> and is located at a high altitude of 3,656 meters&nbsp;(10,000 feet) above sea level<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uyuni Salt Flats<\/strong> has one of the largest<strong> lithium<\/strong> reserves in the world, the exact amount of lithium it holds isn\u2019t yet known, but it is estimated to be the largest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Uyuni was the first place in Bolivia to see a train passing through its lands, back in 1899, connecting Uyuni with Antofagasta (Chile) to facilitate the export of the silver extracted from the mines of Huanchaca.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2447\" src=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UyuniTrainCemeteryBolivia-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\" Uyuni-Train-Bolivia\" width=\"668\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UyuniTrainCemeteryBolivia-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UyuniTrainCemeteryBolivia-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UyuniTrainCemeteryBolivia-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UyuniTrainCemeteryBolivia-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UyuniTrainCemeteryBolivia-339x254.jpeg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What once was the country\u2019s greatest symbol of progress has now become another attraction in Uyuni: <b>Uyuni Salt Flats train cemetery<\/b>. The result is a curious picture formed by dozens of orange wagons that lie abandoned.Another of the curiosities about Uyuni Salt Flats is its presence and relevance in the shooting of <b>Star Wars: \u2018The last Jedi\u2019<\/b>. It is nothing less than the last scene of the final battle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolivia&#8217;s Salar de Uyuni is considered one of the most extreme and remarkable vistas in all of South America, if not Earth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-americas","8":"category-beauty","9":"category-travel"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}