03. Salar of Uyuni, Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located in the Potosi and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia near the crest of the Andes.
In Bolivia, the must visited place is the Salar de Uyuni. It will be unlike anything that have ever seen.
It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar.
The salt is over 10 meters thick in the center. In the dry season, the salt planes are a completely flat expanse of dry salt, but in the wet season, it is covered with a thin sheet of water that is still drivable. The Salar of Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt of which less than 25.000 tons is extracted annually.
Every November, the Salar of Uyuni is the breeding grounds for three species of pink South American flamingos like the chilean, andean and rare james's flamingo. Their color their color presumably originating from feeding on pink algae. There are about 80 of other bird species present, including the hoorned coot, the andean goose and the andean hilstar.

There are also a few places surrounding the salar of Uyuni that promising an excitement such as Colorful Lakes  Laguna Colorada, Tupiza, Valles de Rocas, isla Incahuasi.

in the rainy/wet season is roughly from January to April (subject to change). During this period parts of the Salar may be covered with water. It's still possible to do the trip, to visit the Salar and the beautiful lagoons, the highlights of the trip for most people. However with water on the Salar tourist cannot cross it for hours like in the dry season and generally cannot get to Isla Incahuasi/Fish Island.

A salt hotel in salar of Uyuni also the atrraction to tourist.