Six Things I Learned on the Salt Flats

Alana Hughes's avatarChasing Patagonia

Nine years ago, I caught an old rickety train from the Argentinian-Bolivian border into the small Bolivian town of Uyuni – home of the world’s largest salt flat. The wet season typically offers a beautiful thin layer of water over the flat salt, resulting in stunning reflective photos where subjects appear to be floating in an infinite sky. The dry season offers endless hexagonal salt crystals and stunning blue skies to create mind-altering perspective pictures. If you’re lucky, you can land somewhere in between, with a thin layer of water and crisp skies to accompany the vastness of the salar. Unfortunately for me, nine years ago, at the end of May, Uyuni experienced an unseasonal and extremely rare bout of snow. Daniel and I were offered nothing but freezing weather, dull grey skies, and sludgey brown snow-salt. For a place that was supposed to be one of the highlights…

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