Mirror of the Bolivian Sky, officially Salar de Uyuni;
It is the largest wasteland covered by salt layer in the world, with a length of 150 kilometers, a width of 130 kilometers and an area of 9,065 square kilometers. The thickness of salt layer here can reach tens of meters.
It’s definitely the flattest place on earth.
Especially before the rainy season comes from December to February every year, when a thin layer of water accumulates on the entire vast wasteland, it is the moment when its appearance peaks.
Thousands of square kilometers of land, like a mirror, reflect the sky and the surrounding mountains, forming a unique and charming landscape, hence the name Mirror of the Sky. When people are in it, they can’t tell where the sky is and where the earth is, as if they have entered a mirror space of Doctor Strange, which is psychedelic and shocking.
When the sun sets in the west, the sunset begins to have a charming color. You can feel the beauty of “autumn water shares the same color, and the sunset and the motorcade flying together”
When the galaxy rises, the night sky shines with bright stars, and you can experience the dream of “I don’t know that the sky is in the water after being drunk, and the boat is full of clear dreams pressing the galaxy”.
Here, visitors from all over the world have developed a variety of ways to play in the afterlife
You can ride your bicycle and draw a leisurely ripple on the calm water
You can also run wildly, leaving a happy and free trail behind you
You can also step on a surfboard and happily paddle in this mirror world.
In short, here, your body and mind can feel a kind of liberating freedom
Of course, one might say, all of this is because of the water, and what if there is no water?
In fact, even after the salt marsh of Uyuni dries up, it is very flat compared with the general topography. The biggest ups and downs come from the lines formed by the cracked salt shell, but the height of these naturally formed cracks is generally difficult to exceed 10 cm.
Therefore, compared with the lush forests, winding rivers and rolling mounds of the Siberian plain, this place must be much flatter.
Others say that the ice sheet in Antarctica or the ice sheet in the Arctic Ocean is also very flat, but because there are many broken icebergs and ice cracks in the polar regions, it is definitely far from flat.
The only thing that can compare may really be the frozen Lake Baikal
Yeah, I’ve got it. If it is Lake Baikal or the sea that is not frozen, then the height of the undulating waves must be higher than the cracked line of these salt crusts.
Of course, if you talk about artificial creation, it really doesn’t make much sense.
So I think there’s no doubt that Salar de Uyuni is the flattest place in the world
Similarly, as a dry season, Salar de Uyuni is still beautiful and pure, as desolate as a desert, but it also feels more wasteland than a desert, mainly endless sky, with only small mountains in the distance, which can make you feel that you are on the earth at the moment.
