Running seven to 11 nights, “ Travesía Atacama & Uyuni ” invites travelers to visit the Uyuni Salt Flat and the Atacama Desert, with scenic views and explorations along the way.

In the southwestern corner of Bolivia, about an hour's flight from La Paz, the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles.

Uyuni is home to the largest salt flats in the world– 25 times larger than the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Formed by a gigantic, dried out prehistoric lake, the salt flats offer the odd ...

After a rainstorm, the flats are often covered by a thin layer of very salty water—shallow enough that the pictured bicycle can be ridden through the water. All of the miners who harvest salt from the ...

Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world, roughly 25 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Some 40,000 years ago, it was part of Lake Minchin, a prehistoric salt lake.

At the Uyuni Salt Flats, the Bolivian government is building the first phase of what it hopes will be the largest lithium production plant in the world to power new electric cars like the Chevy Volt.