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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: heavy liquid on August 07, 2006, 09:56:09 AM

Title: Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats
Post by: heavy liquid on August 07, 2006, 09:56:09 AM

Saw this over at Where The Hell Is Matt? (http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/).  He's a lucky guy who does nothing else but travel to unique and strange places.

This is from the Salt Flats of Bolivia:

(http://wherethehellismatt.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/img_1098.JPG)

None of these pictures are photoshopped.  At over 4,000 square miles, it's the world's largest salt flat.  In the rainy season it's covered with a couple of inches of water that creates a perfect mirror of the sky. 

(http://wherethehellismatt.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/img_1135.JPG)


(http://wherethehellismatt.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/img_1104.JPG)

The speck on the horizon is the Salt Hotel (http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/salt_hotel.html).  Yes, it's made out of salt.

Amazing.  I really need to travel there sometime in my lifetime.

Title: Re: Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats
Post by: demi on August 07, 2006, 11:15:31 AM

This is in Shadow Hearts: From the New World (PS2), the Uyuni Salt Flats

I thought it was a fake place in the game until this thread

The more you know!

Title: Re: Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats
Post by: heavy liquid on August 07, 2006, 11:23:35 AM

That's funny, I haven't played that game so I didin't know that it was in there.

Here are some pics of the Salt Hotel:

http://redspot.blogbugs.org/18438/Unique-Salt-Hotel.html

(http://serv4.imagehigh.com/imgs//9759_012.jpg)

Yep, everything really is made out of salt.  It's about $50 bucks a night.

Title: Re: Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats
Post by: demi on August 07, 2006, 11:51:20 AM

Here are some pics from in the game:

(http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/2025/shftnwimg012sa5.jpg)
(http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/5128/shftnwc070qo8.jpg)