Salar de Uyuni
Good to know
- Best time to go
- December to April (reflections), May to November (dry crust)
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The world's largest salt flat at approximately 10,582 square kilometers, Salar de Uyuni sits at 3,656 meters on the altiplano and is the remnant of a prehistoric lake. During the rainy season, a thin film of water transforms the surface into a vast mirror that reflects the sky with near-perfect fidelity. The flat is also the source of a significant proportion of the world's known lithium reserves, and the Train Cemetery on its edge is a landscape of rusting nineteenth-century locomotives.
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