 "QUANTUM SHOT" #44(rev) Link - article by Avi Abrams Serene Salar de Uyuni: Bolivian Salt Lake and Cacti Islands The Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is perhaps one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. A magnificent area featuring impressive Salt Desert (the world's largest), active volcanoes, tall cacti islands and geyser flats, it exists in a haze, like an alien mirage, something completely out-of-this-world...  (image credit: Guy Nesher)  (image credit: Yves Dumaresq, via)  (image credit: desman, via) One travelogue describes Salar de Uyuni in this way: "...We finally reached the salt flats. Imagine being surrounded by endless white salt covered by a few inches of water. Without any reference points the sky meets the salt and creates an odd illusion that objects in the flats are flying. I had never seen anything like it... The truck drove through the salt flats and stopped at an island full of cacti. We had lunch on a table made of a large salt tablet and eventually stopped at a hotel made completely of salt." Here the salts are gathered...  (image credit: Calimero74, via) Bizarre islands populated with giant cacti:   (images credit: leo61, via 1, 2) "A Stone Tree":   (images via) A haunted train cemetery:  ... will make a great location for a Quentin Tarantino's movie -  (images via Gigazine) A Valley of Geysers:   (bottom image credit: leo61) A silent mystery of vast salt expanses...  ...reminds us of the serene frozen landscapes of Antarctica:  (images credit: desman)  (image credit: desman) Source and more photos are at Trek-Earth CONTINUE TO THE NEXT PART! -> READ THE REST OF OUR "AMAZING NATURE" SERIES ->
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