Whether you’re crossing Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni or the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana, staying overnight on these vast ...

Uyuni, Bolivia, Jan 1 (EFE).- On the salt flats of Uyuni in southwestern Bolivia, the horizon seamlessly merges with sky, a natural wonder where hundreds of tourists celebrated New Year this weekend.

Bolivia’s tourism reputation is generally as a rugged backpacker destination with a few otherworldly gems for more sophisticated travelers—namely the Uyuni Salt Flats and La Paz’s buzzy ...

According to Arce, the project involving Russia's Uranium One company regarding direct lithium extraction in Bolivian salt flats “must start operating in 2025” while that company and the state ...

From the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world, mighty steam locomotives once carried silver, minerals and, above all, salt from south-western Bolivia to the Pacific coast of Chile.

On Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast white salt flat that feels almost otherworldly, Karina Quispe is watching from the sidelines a global resource race for the world's largest - and almost ...

An Irish tourist who died in a car crash in Bolivia last Friday has been named locally as 29-year-old Oisín Hoy from Clontarf ...

Bolivia's Uyuni lake, the largest salt flat in the world, offers an alluring affect that invokes a feeling different from witnessing the Northern Lights, but with no less the impact.

Bolivia’s salt flats don’t have the luxury of consistent sun, and evaporation methods have had minimal success. Lithium evaporation pools in Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia. Source: NASA.

DEEP into the Bolivian salt flats lies an eerie graveyard of abandoned train carriages and engines. More than 100 steam locomotives and rail cars have been left to rust for 80 years in the ...

Covering 4,050 square miles, the Bolivian salt flats extend much farther than the eye can see. Because the Salar de Uyuni is one of the flattest places on Earth, it creates optical illusions of ...