--- description: Find out why Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia is on TIME’s 2021 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places. title: Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia: The World’s 100 Greatest Places of 2021 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd776c781cd910241/698a1de716d8845260c39d9d/worlds-greatest-places-2021-Uyuni-Salt-Flats-Bolivia_001.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 20, 2021 # Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia Salt-flat homestays by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Incahuasi island, Uyuni salt-flat in Bolivia Incahuasi island, Uyuni salt-flat in BoliviaJimena Peck—Shutterstock Salar de Uyuni is perhaps Bolivia’s best-known geological wonder, thanks to its blindingly white landscape. From December through April, rainwater blankets the salt-crusted surface, creating a mirror effect with the deep blue sky, melding into the distant horizon. Hot on the heels of Kachi Lodge—featured in TIME’s 2019 World’s Greatest Places—another destination hotel recently opened near the famous salt flats: Explora’s Uyuni Lodge, a minimalist base close to Tunupa volcano and run in partnership with local families. It’s part of the new Travesía Atacama-Uyuni experience, a multiday 4×4 journey taking travelers from the world’s driest desert in Chile to the world’s largest salt flats with local homestays in between. _—Travis Levius_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079320/uyuni-salt-flats-bolivia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079320/uyuni-salt-flats-bolivia/"},"headline":"Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia","datePublished":"2021-07-20T10:33:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:50:35.989Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079320/uyuni-salt-flats-bolivia/","keywords":["franchise","Magazine","World's Greatest Places"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd776c781cd910241/698a1de716d8845260c39d9d/worlds-greatest-places-2021-Uyuni-Salt-Flats-Bolivia_001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd776c781cd910241/698a1de716d8845260c39d9d/worlds-greatest-places-2021-Uyuni-Salt-Flats-Bolivia_001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079320/uyuni-salt-flats-bolivia/","name":"Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia"}}]}] ```