Salt Palace, Bolivia

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When contemplating what material to use in the construction of a new hotel on the Salar de Uyuni in 1995, the local people had limited choice. Positioned on a salt flat the size of Jamaica, it was inevitably time for sodium chloride to have its architectural moment.

Tourists not content with buying miniature salt llamas can embrace the salt experience more fully with an overnight stay in this hotel, where the walls, beds and tables are made entirely from the white granules. Even the floor is covered in a layer.

The management extend just one request – ‘please do not lick the walls’.

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