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. |
The world's driest desert is Earth's most Mars-like environment, with its vast salt flats and coloured lagoons. |
Traces of former lakes, the salt flats flourish in the region, but the Uyuni salt flat goes beyond imagination. |
Light can be blinding on the high altitude salt flats, or dense and green in the rainforest. |
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. |
Along the coastal strip there are several salt flats, or sabkhas, formed by the ponding and evaporation of water behind coastal dunes. |