If you’re planning a trip to Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, be sure to take your camera. Not only does the relentless uniformity of the landscape provide endless opportunities for trick photography by distorting the sense of perspective, but the thin layer of water that accumulates on the surface also converts this colossal salt flat into a giant reflector. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

For this reason, the Salar is often labeled the world’s largest natural mirror. Sitting some 3,600 meters (11,800 feet) above sea level in the Potosí region in Bolivia, the enormous salt desert covers some 10,000 square kilometers (3,860 square miles), making it the most extensive feature of this kind anywhere on the planet .

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