Salar de Uyuni World’s largest salt flats, located in Bolivia December 2022 by Ravi Gundakaram One of the most amazing places in Bolivia is Salar de Uyuni. The salt flats are truly mesmerizing! It seems that almost anyone who visits the beautiful country visits the flats. Although salt flats exist south of the border in Argentina in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy (you can ready my photo essay on those), Salar de Uyuni takes the crown for its sheer size! How did all that salt get there? Due to the drying up of prehistoric lakes! It seems Salar de Uyuni can be seen from space! With an area of over 10,000 square kilometres and a variation of surface of about a metre over this vast area, it is as flat as it gets! An amazing use of this, coupled with the reflectivity, is for calibrating the distance measurement equipment of satellites. Surely few other areas exist on the planet that are as large and as flat! A guide in Colchani explaining how s...