The Largest Salt Flat in the World

Hey there! Thanks for clicking by today. Hope you are doing as well as you can. Hang in there, Snoopy! It is officially Spring today! Yea! It’s about time! We have had the coldest winter on record and the most snow in I don’t know how many years…something like 115 and I wasn’t around at the time despite what some people say. Help yourself to a mug of warm up juice and a virtual treat. Thanks to Audrey in Calgary, Alberta for sharing today’s topic…the same colour as snow but a tad saltier…

The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi) and major tourist  destination in Bolivia, devoid of wildlife or vegetation but home to an estimated 10 billion tons of salt.

What is no less incredible, is people who visit this amazing place stay.How does one build something in the middle of vast emptiness. The answer is remarkable.

This exotic part of the world is in for a real treat and stay in one of the world's most unique hotel experiences. A lack of conventional construction materials 

in the area means hotels are built entirely with salt blocks cut from the Salar itself. The most famous one is Palacio de Sal, Spanish for "Palace of salt".
The hotel is made of 1 million14-inch salt blocks, used for the floor, walls, ceiling and furniture, including beds, tables, chairs and sculptures.

The hotel has a dry sauna and steam room, a saltwater pool and whirlpool baths for guests to relax in and enjoy this unreal place. 

Imagine what it's like, sleeping on salt beds, sitting on salt chairs and eating at salt tables.

How beautiful everything in this hotel is, that beauty is nothing compared to the view…

The salt flats are so white and clear they often show a perfect reflection of the sky and the objects above them. In fact, because the Salar is so flat and has such a strong reflection, similar to that of ice sheets, it is used for calibrating the distance measurement equipment of satellites in space!

The white, endless flats also offer visitors a unique opportunity to take some truly mind bending pictures. With no other objects in sights, the human eye loses its ability to establish a proper field of depth. The results are some of the most creative and bizarre pictures you will ever see… 

The salar is truly a place like no other, a magical kingdom of salt and beauty where one can drive on the endless flats and see the sky both above and below him. It is just one of many places on earth that prove that beauty has no rules and that nature always has one more trick up her sleeve. 

Don't take life too seriously,
It's not like you're going to get out alive. 

Sory I don't have space to display the pictures properly. If you want to see them in all their splendour, Google: Salar de Uyuni.

Do you want fries with your salt?

See ya, eh!

Bob