For years, Instagram made us believe that Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni was Earth’s biggest mirror. Visitors post dazzling photos of clouds, mountains, and themselves doubled against the thin sheet of ...

Perky vicunas canter across a DayGlo-orange lagoon. Suspiciously extraterrestrial-looking green blobs of vegetation have invaded patches of stark desert, and bunnies with long, fluffy tails hop ...

SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — In the southwestern corner of Bolivia, about an hour’s flight from La Paz, the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles. There is no ...

The image shows part of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt flat in the world. Occupying over 10 000 sq km, the vast Salar de Uyuni lies at the southern end of the Altiplano, a high plain of ...

The salt flats of Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni make up one of the most mesmerizing and otherworldly landscapes on the planet.

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.

The stark white salt formations are the result of the evaporation of prehistoric lakes. It is located where Lake Minchin once was 40,000 years ago. This unique ecosystem is an otherworldly experience ...

Prehistoric lakes once covered Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni near the crest of the Andes. When these lakes dried up over hundreds of thousands of years, their rich salt content was left behind, and it ...

The salt flats of Uyuni have triggered international interest among energy companies due to its lithium reserves, and Bolivia hopes the metal could power a green revolution when electric cars reach ...

The landlocked (and usually overlooked) country of Bolivia in South America is home to the largest salt flats in the world, visible by astronauts in space. The Salar de Uyuni is 25 times larger than ...