The salt flats in this area are protected, so you can't freely enter them — you must be on a tour. As soon as I arrived in Tupiza, I found plenty of places offering tours to the salt flat.

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But elsewhere, it’s dried out, including at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The landscape is flat, but for 1-inch-raised hexagons of salt crystals formed by cycles of flooding and evaporation.

The Salt Flats at Uyuni, or Salar de Uyuni, are 4,086 square miles, almost 100 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, making them the largest salt flats in the world.

When I went to cover Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats a couple of weeks back, I brought along a quintet of old film cameras— ranging from 52 to 118 years old— to capture the action.

See All 53 Photos Rain late last week flooded the Salt Flats, leaving the place a slushy mess; not a place you'd want to drive at freeway speeds, much less make a 500-mph record attempt during the ...

Bonneville Salt Flats 2013 pictures: On the salt flats cars attempt to set a new record or break an existing one. If a car goes fast enough to qualify by breaking an existing speed for a certain ...

In the world's biggest salt desert, measuring 12,000 sq km (4,635 sq miles), the ground at certain times of the year resembles a giant mirror. In the remaining months, it is more like an immense ...

Bonaire, the quiet gem of the Dutch Caribbean, is known for its incredible underwater world, but there’s a part of the island that stands out, ... Read more The post The salt of Bonaire: Ecotourism in ...

Salt has been used as currency, has provoked wars and inspired city names (e.g., Salzburg). Today, while Americans consume an average 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt a day, it is still considered a luxury ...

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