Salar de Uyuni
When a prehistoric lake dried up about 30,000 years ago, leaving a vast expanse of white hexagonal tiles, endless. Welcome to the world's largest salt marsh, stretching over 4,000 square miles of the 25 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
The website provides local miners more than 25,000 tons of salt each year, tens of thousands of flamingos support a thriving community, and attract many tourists can check into the Hotel Palacio de Sal, 16-room hotel, entirely of salt blocks.
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