"with 4,000 square miles and 10 billion tons of salt, the salar de uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat. hills in the distance appear to float, the horizon acting as a giant mirror. tourists roam its crystalline expanse in jeeps, taking pictures of themselves getting squished by a friend’s giant foot or popping out of a coca-cola bottle, using the featureless flats like a blue screen set. the best time to visit is between march and may when the flats are free of water but are not yet freezing. tours are one or three days long- try to find a group of people you like, since you’ll be six people in the back of a jeep. book tours in la paz or uyuni itself- they’re all the same."
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