{"id":608,"date":"2008-06-10T19:47:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=608"},"modified":"2014-02-07T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T03:34:52","slug":"salar-de-uyuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"salar de uyuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salar de Uyuni &#8211; at 10,582 km\u00c2\u00b2 , the largest salt flat on Earth.  Around 40,000 years ago it was part of Lake Minchin (an enormous lake that encompassed the Salar as well as another neighbouring Salar, and two existing lakes).  It sits at an altitude of 3650m on the Bolivian Altiplano being salty and flat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/320917105_aj7qU-S.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also very handy for taking lots of silly photos &#8211; here we see Alex executing a perfect star-jump style &#8216;jump&#8217; photo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/320916842_VxMmu-S.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Up-close with the salt &#8211; it&#8217;s very hard, and forms strange patterns on the surface.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/320913123_BFpTa-S.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And is also good for napping (but then again, where isn&#8217;t?)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 310px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/317007694_pi9He-M.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And more silly photos, as I attempt to fly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width: 410px; margin: auto; position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/320916314_8YpyS-S.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we draw closer to Uyuni, we reach the salt harvesting operations.  I was under the illusion that these pyramids would be something like an enormous pile of table salt &#8211; not so, they&#8217;re really pretty solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salar de Uyuni &#8211; at 10,582 km\u00c2\u00b2 , the largest salt flat on Earth. Around 40,000 years ago it was part of Lake Minchin (an enormous lake that encompassed the Salar as well as another neighbouring Salar, and two existing lakes). It sits at an altitude of 3650m on the Bolivian Altiplano being salty and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[1191,368,1213,1208,1210,1211,1189,1467,1544,1212],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-altiplano","tag-bolivia","tag-pyramids","tag-salar-de-uyuni","tag-salt","tag-salt-flat","tag-south-america","tag-stham2008","tag-travel","tag-uyuni"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">altiplano<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bolivia<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">pyramids<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salar de uyuni<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salt<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salt flat<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">south america<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">stham2008<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=21\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">uyuni<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">altiplano<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bolivia<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">pyramids<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salar de uyuni<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salt<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">salt flat<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">south america<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">stham2008<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">travel<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">uyuni<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 18 years ago","modified":"Updated 12 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 10.6.2008","modified":"Updated on 7.2.2014"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 10.6.2008 7:47 pm","modified":"Updated on 7.2.2014 9:34 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}