Bolivia showcases its most staggering natural beauty across the 4,000 square miles of Salar de Uyuni. The salt flats, formed as vast prehistoric lakes dried up, glisten all the way to the horizon and the further in you venture, the more spectacular and surreal the surroundings become.
Bypassing snow-capped volcanic peaks, you’ll journey from cacti islands engulfed by salt plains to steaming natural geysers, baffling rock formations, magical lagoons of electric green and pink lakes out in the wilderness occupied by flamingos. Closer to the town of Uyuni, a lonely group of abandoned locomotives wither away on the edge of the plains, the curious spectacle just another of the region’s many quirks.
