Exploring the Largest Salt Flats In The World At Explora’s Exceptional Luxury Lodges

Ronald Halbe

Some nature aficionados swear by GOD, as in: “Go outside, dummy.” The original phrase was sprinkled around the internet…

The world’s largest salt flats, known as

Salar de Uyuni

, hold some 10 billion tons of salt nearly 12,000 feet about sea level in Bolivia. From December to April, the flats look like an endless mirror due to copious rains, but from May to November, the entire area is completely dry, crackled with surreal, hexagonal shapes right in the salt. I had long wanted to see the stark white surface of Salar de Uyuni amid its flamingos, giant cacti, and culpeos (a wolf like creature referred to as the Andean fox). Fortunately, one of my favorite hotel brands, one that holds “GOD” as its unstated mantra, has a lodge right on the edge of this glorious landscape.

Over the last three decades,