That's when things started heading South

The last stop on my Bolivian adventure was the world largest and highest salt flats in Uyuni. The landscape is other worldly, like a sea of white stretching in every direction. Without sun glasses a person could go blind in a matter of no time. Also a person's skin could fall off at the elevation that the salt flats are at. Once a massive interior sea in the highs of the Andes, now Uyuni is an other worldly site to see.

The salt flats are a world heritage site and the Bolivian government has recognized their extreme importance to the tourism and development of this out of reach area of Southwestern Bolivia. While that may seem amazing, there is always something there to ruin it. The worlds largest untapped lithium reserves lie under the salt flats. With the growing demand for heavy metals to charge the batteries we all seem to need, lithium prices have flown through the roof. It is now only a matter of time until the salt flats are torn up to mine the valuable lithium below.

There is more to the Southwest circuit then just the salt flats. The area contains volcanoes, rock formations, sand dunes, lagoons full of flamingos, wildlife, and geysers. In order to see all of these areas one must go on one of the many tours that do this circuit. A lot of the trip is spent doing normal road trip things in the end.

Of course there is the wildlife as well. Vacuñas, Flamingos, and Foxes.

The landscape of the Southwest is amazing. The high elevation desert creates a type of landscape I would imagine dinosaurs wandering around. Its amazing to see rocks that have been carved out only by the wind and sand through millions of years.