I Touched the Sky – Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

Visiting the Uyuni Salt Flats during rainy season feels a bit like touching the sky.

My heart beating, my soul breathing

I found my life when I laid it down

Upward falling, spirit soaring

I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

Touch the Sky, Hillsong United

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My heart beating, my soul breathing… better than my lungs. ‘Cause the altitude, you know!

Upward falling, spirit soaring – the water covering the salt surface creates an amazing mirror effect. Up and down becomes relative and sky and earth contiguous.

I’ll be leaving Bolivia in 3 weeks and I got a bit emotional about it today. I guess that explains why this post is so poetic. But here are a few raw facts about Uyuni (’cause I’m Eastern European after all… can’t get too emotional!)

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Raw, unemotional, apathetic, coldhearted facts

1. Location: south-western Bolivia, Potosi department
2. Altitude: 3,656m / 11,995ft – which makes it the highest salt flat in the world
3. Area: 10,582 sq km / 4,086 sq mi – the largest in the world
4. Natural resources: salt (duh!) and lithium (more than 50% of the world’s reserves).
5. The city of Uyuni is the gateway to the salt flats and tours usually include a visit to the train cemetery just outside the city.
6. We had lunch in a restaurant made of salt.

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And yes, “I touched the sky when my knees hit the ground”.

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