Salar de Uyuni

Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, located in southwestern Bolivia. During the rainy season the Salar is covered by 10cm of water. Below the water is several meters of salt crust, and below that about half of the world's lithium reserves (which is still untouched). A recent article in The New Yorker talks about Bolivia's aspirations to become the Saudi Arabia of the electric-car era (link here). Bolivia's history is full of examples of mismanagement of its natural resources. Whether this time it's going to be any different is to be seen.

Parque Cretácico (Cal Orck'o)

Dinosaur tracks on a vertical wall (which was actually a beach 65 million years ago) near Sucre. There are over 6,000 tracks from about 150 different dinosaur species. Discovered by accident - there was a cement operation in this location, but once the content of the soil was deemed useless for cement-making, they just left this hillside half dug out. Then over time, rain and erosion revealed the tracks. The wall is unstable, so they are applying to UNESCO to recognize it as a World Heritage Site and finance its preservation in order to prevent more landslides that would erase them (the most recent landslide was in February).

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