Gallery: The geological marvel that is the Bolivian Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni)!

It was so big, Steve couldn't use his mouth and squeeze at the same time.

It was so big, Steve couldn’t use his mouth and squeeze at the same time.31-Aug-2009 15:25, FUJIFILM FinePix F40fd , 6.4, 8.0mm, 0.002 sec, ISO 100

The Salar de Uyuni are the largest salt flats in the world and one of the more famous tourist spots of Bolivia, although we weren’t completely sure why. We knew there would be lots of salt involved, and from the odd photo we were quite convinced the sights we’d see would be on the main fairly flat. Our ignorance and the fact we’d arranged to do the tour with our Latvian friends Martins and Dagmara made the anticipated trip all the more potentially exciting. But if all we were going to see was a lot of flat, white salt then I wasn’t sure we were going to do for the other seventy one hours of the three day trip. So was it as potentially boring as we’d feared? What’s this about volcanoes and multi-coloured lakes? Just what exactly is borax?

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