Salar de Uyuni

The Bolivian salt flats! Everyone I met told me that this was one of the best things they had done in South America, which meant I was excited to have finally made it.

I started in Uyuni and met my group and guide in the town. Over the next 3 days, we would drive in a land cruiser across the salt flats, deserts, and mountains, after which we would enter Chile via the northern Atacama desert.

Day 1 we struck out to the salt flats directly, the remains of an ancient sea that had become trapped by mountain growth and raised up leading to its total evaporation, leaving only salt behind.

Because of this, the flats are, as the name suggests, almost perfectly flat, which lets you take some very cool photos. Especially with some rain on the surface!Läs mer