15th - 18th December. 4x4 Tour of Salar de Uyuni and Reserva Andina Eduardo Avaroa
All that remains - the Train Cemetary in Uyuni
The laguna Verde (green lagoon) in Reserva Eduardo Avaroa
On the vast salt plain (the world’s largest) of the Salar de Uyuni
The laguna roja (red lagoon) in Reserva Eduardo Avaroa.
The Andean fox searching food in the desert
A field of geysers in the magical sunrise landscape align.
The Salar de Uyuni - blank as an empty page, a plane of possibility stretching white to the horizon, then blurring seamlessly into sky, a spattering of distant purple hills and islands are visible, floating on colliding light. Even having read the descriptions, the guidebooks and tour company fliers, even having seen the photographs, the vastness of this body not of water, nor snow or ice, but of salt is startling.
The Salar de Uyuni, a sea of salt, a salt desert, in southwestern Bolivia, was once an inland sea, or giantsalt water lake, but the water vanished into the thin dry air of Andean altitude. All that remains is the salt, tens of meters thick, lying stark beneath bright sky: a sun-bleached skeleton of a dead sea In the rainy season the landscape changes. There is a thin layer of water above the salt; it could be described as an Alice In Wonderland moment driving in miniature across a gigantic mirror with sky above and sky below.
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