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    Hexagonal salt cakes baked onto the salar surface
    Ojos de SalSalt water bubbling from below groundSalt plains around

    Ojos de Sal

    October 8, 2017 in Bolivia ⋅ 🌙 20 °C

    The eye of the salt is a clear salted water pool bubbling out from below the ground in the middle of the salar salt plains.
    The water is clear but very salty. We dipped our hands in the water to feel the consistency and immediately on drying, the hands were white with salt. We tasted it and found it to be very salty. I'm not sure why and how salt water is seeping out from below the ground.
    All around us were baked and crystallized salt planes. Its a surreal sight.    Read more