Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. blue sky day at Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia Envision yourself in a calming, untainted place where the sky and earth meet on an ...

Why it's incredible: The salt flat is the largest on Earth and contains a huge chunk of the world's lithium. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching roughly 4,000 square miles ...

The salt flats of Uyuni have triggered international interest among energy companies due to its lithium reserves, and Bolivia hopes the metal could power a green revolution when electric cars reach ...

The landlocked (and usually overlooked) country of Bolivia in South America is home to the largest salt flats in the world, visible by astronauts in space. The Salar de Uyuni is 25 times larger than ...

Nevada's Black Rock Desert, home to the Burning Man festival, has nothing on Bolivia, especially its surreal southwestern corner. The highlights of the isolated region are extreme geographic ...

Doubts that this was not a serious, off-the-beaten-track expedition were gone. A scratchy satellite phone call revealed the vehicle carrying our food and supplies had become lost and bogged somewhere ...