Envision yourself in a calming, untainted place where the sky and earth meet on an infinite horizon, the air is thick with peace, and the ground shiny. This setting is not from a fantasy story. It is ...

Perky vicunas canter across a DayGlo-orange lagoon. Suspiciously extraterrestrial-looking green blobs of vegetation have invaded patches of stark desert, and bunnies with long, fluffy tails hop ...

Why it's incredible: The salt flat is the largest on Earth and contains a huge chunk of the world's lithium. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching roughly 4,000 square miles ...

HIGH IN Bolivia’s Andes is a vast, surreal landscape of salt flats that stretch over more than 4,000 square miles. The salt crust of this high-country desert, the Salar de Uyuni, shimmers whitely in ...

It's a desert, but there's no sand. It's a desert but there are no camels, just pink flamingos. Salar de Uyuni is a salt desert that stretches across 4,085 square miles of South America. It's twice ...

On landing in La Paz, drop your bags at the crisply modern ­Stannum Boutique Hotel (doubles from $115; stannumhotels.com) and head straight to Gustu (Calle 10 de Calacoto, No. 300; 591-2-211-7491), ...

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 ...

Nevada's Black Rock Desert, home to the Burning Man festival, has nothing on Bolivia, especially its surreal southwestern corner. The highlights of the isolated region are extreme geographic ...