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Bolivia

This is a picture of several salt blocks that have been extracted from Salar de Uyuni. The salt miners make 20 cents a kilo.

BOLIVIA | Monday, 4 February 2008 | Views [309]

This is a picture of several salt blocks that have been extracted from Salar de Uyuni. The salt miners make 20 cents a kilo.

This is a graveyard (Cementario de Trenes) 3km outside of Uyuni where old locomotives which used to cart silver from Uyuni, Potosi and Sucre now sit rusting away aided by the salt spray off the Salar de Uyuni.

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Salar de Uyuni (altitude 3,653m or 12,054ft) is the world´s largest salt flats. It covers an area of 12,000 sq km. or 7,500 sq miles. It was once a prehistoric salt lake called Lago Minchin which covered most of southwest Bolivia. Over time it dried up and left a couple of seasonal puddles and several salt pans. Now it is used for salt mining and tourism. In the wet season it is covered in approximately 1-2 inches of water and you are able to see a perfect mirror reflection of the sky on the salt flats. When driving on this amazing landscape you feel as if you are floating on clouds.

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