Unearthly landscapes are surprisingly beautiful salt marshes. Photo

The 10 most beautiful salt marshes in the world.

In order to make a truly alien footage, it is not necessary to perform space travel.

Enough to go on one of these amazingly beautiful salt marshes: here you will find the scenery, looking at that it is hard to believe that these points are on the map of our, and not some uncharted planet.

1. The Uyuni salt flats, Bolivia (Salar de Uyuni)
The largest and most famous salt flat has an area of 10 582 sq km and more than half the world’s reserves of lithium. The endless white desert is fully desorientiert observer. Of relief is merely collected by the pyramids of salt, small hotels of salt blocks and several Islands, including Inca Wasi of volcanic origin, with a giant, to 10 m tall, the cactus. In the rainy season salt marsh covered with water, creating a mirror effect, which effectively reflects Cumulus clouds. In November arrive here the Chicks flamingos.

2. Salinas Grandes, Argentina (Salinas Grandes)
The second largest dried salt lake at the foot of a mountain range Sierras de Cordoba occupies an area of 6000 sq. km. Until the mid-nineteenth century this place was called the desert — here in the summer to 45 degrees. If you prefer road trips on foot, remember that it is safer to walk on the surface with an intense white color. Good sunglasses and sunscreen a must!

3. The saline Etosha, Namibia, part of the Etosha National Park
“Etosha” in the language of the ovambo means “Big white space”. However, such a color closed lake in the North Nabiji is only in the dry season, and it is colored greenish algae growing on cracked mud with grass-garofita.The salt marsh is part of the national Park at the junction of sushi and salt can be on the watch for wild animals, such as elephants.

4. El JERID, Tunisia (Chott el Djerid)
Lake El JERID, in the absence of precipitation is almost completely dry, and under the effect of heat mirages. Its color can vary from classic white to purple and green. The edges of saline depressions near the outlets of the artesian waters has long been there are oases with groves of date palms. And this place is known for the filming of “Star wars.”

5. The Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana (Makgadikgadi Pan)
The makgadikgadi formed several lakes COA, Ntwetwe and others, and that in winter they are covered with a crust of salt. On the sandy areas between them grow grass and trees, there is even a large baobabs.

6. Lake Salar de Arizaro, Argentina (Salar de Arizaro)
The second largest Argentine salt marsh is located at the foot of the Andes. First and foremost, this place is interesting conical pyramid Kono-Le-Arita height of 122 m, when it is considered man-made, but then proved its volcanic origin. However, archaeologists confirm that in donkovski the era of upstairs, going to the priests for ceremonies.

7. Devils Golf course, CA, USA (Devil’s Golf Course)
The national Park “Death Valley” is known for its arid climate. The bottom of one of the empty lakes, manly, covered with bizarre formations of rock salt. About the roughness of this coating in the guide to the Park in 1934 wrote: “Only the devil could play Golf”. And the name “devil’s Golf course”.

7. The Salar de Atacama, Chile (Salar de Atacama)
This lake is never covered with a thin layer of water, but there are several lakes. Sehar Laguna can boast the same buoyancy on the surface properties as the Dead sea. The lagoon Chahar inhabited by several species of birds. In the region of the Salar de Atacama there are a number of volcanoes, including Lascar, the most active in the country.

9. Bonneville, Utah (Bonneville Salt Flats)
Near salt lake city has a wonderful natural attraction, a dried-up salt lake with the depth of the deposits up to 1.8 m. the Surface of lake Bonneville is so smooth that it is carried out for more than a century of auto and motorcycle racing. Now marked two high-speed tracks where sports cars capable of speeds over 1000 km/h.

10. Dereceye-Nemec, Iran (Namak Lake)
A descendant of the ancient ocean Paratethys, this salt lake has an area of 1800 square kilometers, but water is usually covered with about 1 sq. km Only in the spring, it is filled by the surrounding rivers, turning the hill Kuh-e-Sardaran in the island. Here the relatively rich flora and fauna, in the mouths of the Western tributaries of the fish.

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