A giant salt desert with cactus and blue lake almost transparent

On a dirt road in a straight line drawn is lost to infinity got to Uyuni, a place where Aymara. And it Uyuni, just over 500 kilometers from La Paz, seems to be the way to end of the world. Before an important center for mining and commerce, Uyuni now survives on tourism.

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The landscape is bleak, ten hours away found five people and a dozen houses as much. Which is no less disturbing, prefer not to think what would happen if the bus is ruined. How long we have to wait until someone comes to rescue? Let the adventure, we decided not to think about eventualities.

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In Uyuni hired a stroll in the solar. We left before seven in the morning, we know we are close by the glow is so intense that without dark glasses you eyes burn and run the risk of injuring the retina.  It's rainy season, we are in January, quietly contemplate as everything is duplicated in the salt surface, sky, clouds, tourists, us.

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The Salar de Uyuni is the desert of the world's largest salt, with an area of 12 thousand square kilometers, 10,000 tons of salt and more than a hundred tons of lithium.  salar in the giant cactus there are more than ten meters height, a colony of flamingos in November, and puya Raimondi a relative pineapple flower that blooms every hundred years.

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