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Salar de Uyuni is one of South America’s most phenomenal attractions. The vast expanse of white, glistening salt stretches across 10,582 kilometers of the Altiplano and can even be seen from space. Layers of salt are sandwiched between sedimentary deposits that reach a great depth of 10m in the centre of the flat In total there is an estimated 10 billion tonnes of salt here...
The once bubbling towns of San Antonio de Lipez and San Cristobal de Lipez are flooded in history and captivating stories.
Explore the old, rusting train carriages that have lay on the outskirts of the deserted town of Uyuni since the collapse of the mining industry in the 1940s.
Named after its appearance, the Arbol de Piedra (‘Stone Tree’) is 5 metres tall and has been formed by the work of wind erosion over millions of years.
