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The greatest nothingness imaginable — that ’ s what it feels like to stand on the edge of Salar de Uyuni . Blindingly white and incredibly surreal , this austere landscape high in the Bolivian Andes is the world ’ s largest salt flat — an unfathomable 3,800-square-mile expanse of pure white . The remains of a prehistoric lake bed , this is an otherworldly terrain where the only sound is the thick layer of salt crunching underfoot .
PHOTOS
SALAR DE UYUNI , BOLIVIA
THE GREATEST NOTHINGNESS IMAGINABLE .
In the spring , when the land is covered in a few inches of water , the Uyuni transforms into a gigantic reflective pool , offering a picture-perfect mirror image of the sky above . This illusion of an endless horizon makes for one of the most remarkable vistas in the world , at times made even more jaw-dropping by the presence of thousands of pink flamingoes who come here to breed for a few months each year .
ANDREWHARPERTRAVEL . COM SPRING | 2018