For years, Instagram made us believe that Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni was Earth’s biggest mirror. Visitors post dazzling photos of clouds, mountains, and themselves doubled against the thin sheet of ...

The stark white salt formations are the result of the evaporation of prehistoric lakes. It is located where Lake Minchin once was 40,000 years ago. This unique ecosystem is an otherworldly experience ...

The biggest salt flat on Earth is considered by many to be the world’s largest natural mirror. A team of scientists wondered if that’s actually true, and the answer is—sort of. Reading time 2 minutes ...

There are places that look beautiful, and then there are places that feel unreal. Salar de Uyuni, stretching endlessly across ...

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.