Bolivia's Uyuni salt flats are the largest salt plains in the world. By Andres Schipani. BBC News, Salar de Uyuni. The lunar landscape is the closest thing Earth might have to a void. Nothing is How to get to the Salar de Uyuni. There are several ways to get to Uyuni: Plane, bus, train and tours. Travel to Uyuni by Plane. From the capital of Bolivia (La Paz) there are flights to the city of Uyuni (yes, Uyuni is also a city and near it is the salt flat) from where you can take a taxi (the airport is about 15 minutes from the center) and go to the city to hire a tour or rent a car 25. Bolivia is home to a salt hotel called Palacio de Sal (Palace of Salt). It was made in 1993-1995, and was built using one million blocks of salt. The floor, walls, ceiling and furniture including beds, tables, chairs and sculptures are all made of salt. It is located near the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat we mentioned earlier. Use this Uyuni map to plan your trip. Visit this page to locate Uyuni Hotels and hostels. Visit our Salar de Uyuni Home Page to learn all the amazing facts about the world's most unbelievable salt flats and if you have questions post them in our Uyuni Travel Forum.. How to get to Uyuni: travel routes. Click on a map to see the source of the original image. Getting to Salar de Uyuni. Puedes visitar desde Uyuni y también existe la posibilidad de ir desde San Pedro de Atacama a través de la cordillera de los Andes (You can visit from Uyuni and there is also the possibility of going from San Pedro de Atacama through the Andes). If you just want to visit during a trip to Bolivia, it's a 1-hour flight from La Paz to Uyuni or a 10-hour bus ride. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt-encrusted dry lake in the world, stretching over 10,582 km 2, at an elevation of 3,656 m, above sea level in southern Bolivia. It formed over tens of thousands of years of geological transformations. The area was originally part of a massive lake, known as Lake Minchin, where the water leached salt from the q00W.

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