AMP#2 | Amazing Places | Salar de Uyuni (Salt flats) Or the largest mirror on earth in Bolivia

in #photography7 years ago (edited)

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Nope that ain't a photoshop trick, Salar de Uyuni (Salt flats) is the world's largest salt flat at a measurement of 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi).


Story time


About 30,000–42,000 years ago, there was a large prehistoric lake on where the salt flats is, Lake Minchin, so the lake later dried up and left two new modern lakes and two salt flat dersert , being the smaller Salar de Coipasa and the larger Salar de Uyuni

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The salt flats are located in southwestern Bolivia near the Andes, the salt flats has an amazing flatness, the entire area of the Salar has an average altitude variations within one meter

When the salt flats are covered with water, it becomes one of the largest mirrors on Earth

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Image credits: dadi360, Takaki Watanabe


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Image credits: dadi360, Takaki Watanabe


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Image credits: dadi360, Takaki Watanabe


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Image credits: dadi360, Takaki Watanabe


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Image credits: dadi360, Takaki Watanabe


Did you feel dizzy ? i sure did haha

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