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.

In the southwestern corner of Bolivia, about an hour's flight from La Paz, the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles.

Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt lake with a surface of 12,000 square kilometres. It is situated in the southwest of Bolivia at an altitude of 3,653 metres above sea ...

It is during the daytime that Uyuni is at its most desolate, because tourists are out gazing at the town's modern-day raison d'être: the Salar de Uyuni.

A dusty frontier salt mining outpost - a nearby hotel is made entirely of rock-hard salt blocks - Uyuni sits on the edge of the 7,440-square-mile Salar de Uyuni, which stretches white to the ...

The image shows part of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt flat in the world. Occupying over 10 000 sq km, the vast Salar de Uyuni lies at the southern end of the Altiplano, a high ...

Visitors often describe Salar de Uyuni as 'Heaven on Earth' due to its out-of-the-ordinary sight and experience.

Southwest Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is not only the world’s largest salt flat, but also the largest mirrorat 6,575 square miles.