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Salar de Uyuni

The world’s largest salt flat — 10,000+ km² at 3,650 m that becomes a perfect mirror after rain.

The largest salt flat on Earth — over 10,000 km² of blinding white hexagons at 3,650 m, left behind by an ancient lake. In the dry season you drive across an endless white plain; after rain, a thin film of water turns it into the world’s biggest mirror, sky above and below.

It’s the single most surreal landscape on the route, and the reason Bolivia is on our list at all.

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