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country, as you dance across Bolivia.
SALAR DE UYUNI
Spanning an amazing 12,000 square kilometres,
Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat.
This prehistoric desert, once part of the ancient
Lake Minchin, covered most of southwest
Bolivia before it dried out. Unlike traditional
deserts, the entirely flat Salar de Uyuni features
immeasurable expanses of white salt due
to an unusually high level of salinity. With
Travelmarvel, experience this intriguing and
unique phenomenon at the Hotel Tayka del
Desierto – a unique hotel made entirely of salt.
ATACAMA DESERT
With its jagged, rust-coloured ravines, vast
white salt pans, volcano-topped horizons
and free-flowing felsic lava, the otherworldly
appearance of the remote Atacama Desert is
like no place imaginable. Drawing comparisons
with planets beyond our reach, this lifeless
1,000 kilometre long plateau is regarded as the
driest location on earth due to its extreme and
arid climate and environment. Experience this
withered desert with two-nights at the boutique
Noi Casa Atacama.
VALLE DE LA LUNA
Located 13 kilometres from San Pedro de
Atacama, a barren land filled with bizarre
geological formations, eroded hillsides and lunar
landscapes sits untouched. Believed to
be named by Neil Armstrong, who remarked the
area resembled that of the moon, one of Valle
de la Luna's (Moon Valley) most breathtaking
features is its impressive sand pinnacles. Here,
gaze upon these giant spires that have been
carved by persistent erosion of mountains by
strong winds.
