Video: Michael Kittell Sky Walk: Bolivia's Unique Uyuni Salt Flats
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The amazing landscapes were captured by photographer Michael Kittell during the rainy season on the Uyuni Salt Flats. The water surface covers more than 10,000 square meters of land for 2 centimeters. Complete calmness turns the salt marsh into a bay of measuredness and tranquility.
The sky, reflected in the water surface, visually expands the space, creating the illusion of infinity and the complete absence of land under your feet.
The amazing area is located at an altitude of 3657 meters above the ground, and getting there can be quite difficult. But this fact only benefits the magical area, since the remoteness of the salt marsh protects it from human interference and pollution from exhaust gases.
Not far from the salt marsh is the small town of the same name, Uyuni, whose inhabitants live mainly on salt mining and tourism. There is even a so-called "salt hotel" here, made entirely, including even pieces of furniture, from salt.
By the way, living in such a hotel is quite difficult. Even after a short stay in a salty room, salt is everywhere: on clothes, shoes, skin, hair. Therefore, people most often do not stay overnight, preferring more traditional hotels to the "salt hotel".
It must be admitted that not only the Uyuni salt marsh can boast of its virgin beauty. In any country, you can find landscapes no worse. The main thing is to look around and not remain insensitive, because even a snow-covered meadow can turn out to be a real masterpiece compared to the usual city streets.
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