| In the early spring, flamingos land on the salt flats while in the autumn, the Cypriots celebrate the harvest of the vines with a wine festival. |
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| The water level has receded to expose the entire site, leaving the work as a low white spiral mound embedded in blindingly white salt flats. |
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| Light can be blinding on the high altitude salt flats, or dense and green in the rainforest. |
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| Between salt flats and volcanoes, we ride through a rare blend of sceneries, full of grandiose and unreal colors. |
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| Traces of former lakes, the salt flats flourish in the region, but the Uyuni salt flat goes beyond imagination. |
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| Along the coastal strip there are several salt flats, or sabkhas, formed by the ponding and evaporation of water behind coastal dunes. |
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| The world's driest desert is Earth's most Mars-like environment, with its vast salt flats and coloured lagoons. |
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| The salins of Aigues Mortes according to Wikipédia Salt production by the exploitation of Salin salt flats. |
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| Among the three salt flats, this is the less visited, being far from the traditional touristic itineraries. |
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| The Tidekelt salt flats are estimated to have 192,000 tons of salt and existing geological reserves could reach 25 million tons. |
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| Every year, approximately 47,000 people journey to the salt flats 150 kilometres northeast of Reno. |
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| The run threw another 423km of rocky, stone-strewn, dusty tracks at us, so it was a long and gruelling day which included sun-baked salt flats and abyssal canyons. |
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| The 423km between Calama and Iquique provided riders with the first real challenge of this year's Dakar thanks to a cocktail of extremely rough and rocky terrain, salt flats and sand, plus dunes nearer to the finish. |
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| We walked across the salt flats down to the water's edge, and discovered that hundreds of fish had been washed downstream with the flood waters and killed by the salt water of the lake, littering the shoreline. |
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| Head due south, cross the 'Petit Rhône' river and discover the Camargue with its rice-fields and salt flats, its wildlife park with its famous pink flamingos. |
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| The cultivated corn, frijoles, etc. and the exploitation of the salt flats allowed them to generate a surplus which they traded through caravans of camels. |
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| Still, if all goes to plan, Richard Brown will behind the controls of Jet Reaction later this year at the Bonneville salt flats in Utah, US, when he tries to break the two-wheeled land speed record. |
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| The chief's people live around the salt flats. |
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| During interglacial stages, when less precipitation fell, the pluvial lakes shrank to form small salt flats. |
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| We see mangroves, glimpse flamingos and pass vast salt flats. |
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| Many species live in areas with sparse vegetation and undisturbed soil, such as sand dunes, salt flats, beaches, bare hillsides, sparse prairie habitat and forest openings. |
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| More than 36,000 square miles have been turned into salt flats and desert. |
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| Main lakes and salt flats by size and department. |
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| They also chase elusive bonefish on the salt flats south of Havana. |
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| The shores in this area are a mixture of intertidal mud, sand, and salt flats, estuarine waters, intertidal marshes, freshwater ponds, swamps, and forested peatlands. |
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| It was a strip of absolute desert, where the only vegetation was the occasional splodge of moss, which lay over the sand edging of the salt flats like livid green cowpats. |
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| The area immediately to the south of this range is the high plateau of the Hautes Plaines, with lakes in the wet season and salt flats in the dry. |
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| En route to the salt flats, hairpin turns wind uphill to the Cuesta de Lipan, the highest point of the trip, where the views are simply breathtaking, quite literally. |
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| Stretching west and south of the Great Salt Lake, the Bonneville Salt Flats are known for their parched, blinding summertime dazzle. |
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| Salt flats and salt lakes reveal a time when the great inland seas covered much of what is now the West. |
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