The dusty road is starting to call, the windscreen is ready for splattering of spring hatch. Wildflowers are waking up in the southern drylands. Been a week or two since it dumped in the intermountain west and it’s beginning to feel like time for a road trip. And after seeing this little piece from Ayrton Orio, it might have to be Bolivia, where the air is thin and 4WD contrails hang in the air like the cold smoke of Alta, Utah.
Salar de Uyuni is a 4,000-square-mile island of near-uniformity–a massive salt flat that, when it rains, turns into a mirror big enough for the moon to preen. It serves as a major route across the Altiplano, holds half of the world’s lithium supply, and varies in height little more than three feet across its entire length. It might be the best place in the world to spin doughnuts.
Orio’s video is two minutes 44 seconds of escapism. Enjoy. And thanks to the Vimeo team for pointing it out.
WANT MORE?
National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz’s aerials of the Altiplano, plus his bird’s eye views of elsewhere in the world, will take your breath away. LINK
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