world's largest salt lake
to Salt Lake to the Adventure
Uyuni Salt Lake is located in the southwestern part of South American highlands of Bolivia , 250 km from east to west , north and south at its widest point 150 km , with a total area of 1.2 million square kilometers, is the world's largest salt lake . From Bo Tuoxi provincial capital to the Salt Lake road can only go to ten hours to get bumpy . According to research, millions of years ago , here is a vast ocean , with the rising crust , the sea gradually receded , leaving a lakes.
Uyuni salt lake worthy of the title of the world's largest , said that many places where the salt layer are more than 10 m thick, total reserves About 650 million tons, enough to eat around the world for thousands of years . Is its proximity to the locals , do not spend money on the natural salt . However, conditions can be quite difficult to play here : a high altitude of 3,700 meters, more than ten thousand square kilometers of lake area unpopulated , which bare an almost no sense of direction of reference .
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