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El Salar de Uyuni: Or, How I Became Our Lady of Salt

May 23, 2019 Diana Juarez
Photo by Nathan Sharp

Photo by Nathan Sharp

Our minds wheeled and sputtered in the blankness, on ground that was neither soil, nor sand, nor snow. The adjectives we had brought with us were not adequate here. Lunar. Martian. Salt of the moon. Salt of Mars. No, they would no longer serve us. For the salar has long glittered underfoot fantastic, yet fathomable creatures—elegantly proportioned vicuñas, fluorescent flamingoes. It has long been mined for minerals commonly used—salt and boron, and now, lithium. And so, somehow, this place was of our world also, of our home.

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In Personal, Inspiration, Motorcycles Tags Bolivia, Altiplano, Salar de Uyuni, Inspiration, Salt Flats, Batch 2
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