World's Largest Mirror

Visiting the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia during the rainy season is an entirely different experience. Instead of a huge salt flat you would find an amazing lake. Traveling is only possible along the edges of the salar. I took this shot right at sunrise when the first light of the day illuminated the islands in the Salar. To get there I had to leave way before sunrise. Just a word of caution: this can be done safely but you have to drive a car through a lake of saturated salt solution, at night! Most the time the water is only a few inches deep, however there are spots were sinkholes exists. Driving a car into one of those will definitively ruin your sunrise shooting. I scouted the area the afternoon before and recorded the way back on my GPS. Next morning, still pitch-black, I would follow my GPS and would drive the car exactly on the recorded path. There is no light, it is entirely dark around you. Second tip: bring rubber boots and brace the cold. The only reason the water is not freezing is because it is saturated with dissolved minerals. The white material floating on the water is crystalized borax. If the conditions are right and you hit a calm day you will experience the world's largest mirror. It is amazing!