Title – Alien World
Date – October 2006
Location - Bolivia
Bolivia’s massive salt flats leave you with the feeling of having visited another planet. The largest of the salt flats Salar de Uyuni is with its 4,085 square miles (10,582 square km) the largest in the world and roughly half the size of Wales.
This salt flat is used by the locals to collect and harvest the salt, an activity that in many places is still entirely done by hand without the help of heavy machinery. But with these harvests taking some 25,000 tonnes out of the flats every year, how long is it before the flats disappear completely?
Fortunately Salar de Uyuni alone holds some estimated 10 billion tonnes of salt meaning that the flats are set to be there for several hundred more years.
When travelling there always someone to tell you how good a place was when they visited it 10 years ago and how places have been spoilt in the last 5 years. There is no doubt the world is changing quickly, but like the salt flats, amazing sights are going to be available to the intrepid traveller for many, many, more years.
Beyond The Blue run workshops to help people explore a world that still has many secrets to reveal and our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshops are designed to teach individuals both the skills required to travel, as well as the ideal destination for their experience levels and personal preferences.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – © Heather Spalton
Date – October 2006
Location - Bolivia
Bolivia’s massive salt flats leave you with the feeling of having visited another planet. The largest of the salt flats Salar de Uyuni is with its 4,085 square miles (10,582 square km) the largest in the world and roughly half the size of Wales.
This salt flat is used by the locals to collect and harvest the salt, an activity that in many places is still entirely done by hand without the help of heavy machinery. But with these harvests taking some 25,000 tonnes out of the flats every year, how long is it before the flats disappear completely?
Fortunately Salar de Uyuni alone holds some estimated 10 billion tonnes of salt meaning that the flats are set to be there for several hundred more years.
When travelling there always someone to tell you how good a place was when they visited it 10 years ago and how places have been spoilt in the last 5 years. There is no doubt the world is changing quickly, but like the salt flats, amazing sights are going to be available to the intrepid traveller for many, many, more years.
Beyond The Blue run workshops to help people explore a world that still has many secrets to reveal and our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshops are designed to teach individuals both the skills required to travel, as well as the ideal destination for their experience levels and personal preferences.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – © Heather Spalton
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