Saturday 1 January 2011

bolivian salt flats altitude

...Bolivian embassy at the Grand Puno Inn, confident that by noon the next day we'd have our passports stamped and a friendly go-ahead to enter a country famed for salt flats, the Death Road, and cheap high altitude wines.

Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia
Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia

UYUNI SALT FLAT - Southern
UYUNI SALT FLAT - Southern

The Bolivian Salt Flats
The Bolivian Salt Flats

Salt flat paragliding, Bolivia
Salt flat paragliding, Bolivia

Salt Flats, Bolivia
Salt Flats, Bolivia

Bolivian salt flats tour
Bolivian salt flats tour

Salar de Uyuni is part of the Altiplano of Bolivia in South America. The Altiplano is a high plateau, which was formed during uplift of the Andes mountains. The plateau includes fresh and saltwater lakes as well as salt flats and is surrounded by mountains with no drainage outlets. The geological... It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar. The crust serves as a...
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I did an especially good job at sampling Bolivia´s finest high altitude vino. Sucre is a... Tupisa was my next stop for some horse riding before I joined and group and headed off on a tour of the salt flats of Southern Bolivia.
bolivian salt flats altitude

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