Salar de Uyuni | Salt Hotel In Bolivia - Unusual & Unique Hotels Of The World

    At first glance, you could be forgiven for mistaking these images for a beach house, with the floors dusted in a layer of sand and walls made from stone.

    But in fact everything in this incredible South American hotel is made from salt - including most of the furniture.

    The Hotel de Sal, near Colchani, Bolivia, hosts guests who have come to visit the stunning salt flats where vast expanses of salt lakes give the surreal impression of the earth meeting the sky.

    Salar de Uyuni | Salt Hotel In Bolivia
    Salar de Uyuni | Salt Hotel In Bolivia

    Tourists typically stay for a few days to see the natural wonders of Bolivia's most notorious attraction before moving on to the next stop of their journey.

    For £84 a night, lodgers can rent a double room - complete with their own salt bed of course - and breakfast.

    Tour guide Pedro Pablo Michel Rocha, of Hidalgo Tours, works with the hotel to provide trips in the south of the country.

    He said: 'I love it when visitors come to this place for the first time.

    'They can't get over the fact that everything is made out of salt and I've even seen a few people lick the furniture to make sure!

    Salar de Uyuni | Salt Hotel In Bolivia
    Salt Hotel

    Salar de Uyuni | Salt Hotel In Bolivia
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    'It is a wonderful experience to come somewhere like this where they've used the natural materials available to create something like a hotel.'

    The infamous salt flats in Salar de Uyuni were formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes.

    The plains are covered by a few feet of salt crust which has an unusual flatness and covers a pool of brine which is exceptionally rich in lithium.
    Salar de Uyuni | Salt Hotel In Bolivia
    Unusual & Unique Hotels Of The World

    Although tourists have long been visiting the area, it wasn't until around five years ago that interest grew in extracting the 5.4m tons of lithium which is found just below the surface of the salt.

    The lithium in the area makes up half the world's supply and is used in batteries for mobile phones and computers, as well as being a key element in electric cars.

Frog Juice In Peruvian

    Frog Juice
    Frog Juice

    Peru has been selling fresh frog juice for the last 15 years, and some locals drink it every day because they say it gives them strength.

    There’s nothing like a glass of fresh juice in the morning, right? Peruvian restaurant owner Carmen Gonzales would agree with this 100%, only she has a different kind of juice in mind – frog juice, For the last 15 years she and various other juice stand owners have been serving her Jugo de Rana to locals and tourists brave enough to try it, and business is better than ever. She sells about 80 frog-based drinks every day, and some of her clients have them as breakfast drinks, early in the morning, because it gives them energy for the entire day.

    The frogs, which come from the famous Lake Titicaca, located at a high elevation in southern Peru, are taken out of a small aquarium, killed by banging them against tiles, skinned and dropped into a blender along with 20 other ingredients including white bean broth, honey, raw aloe vera, malt, maca (an Andean root also believed to boost stamina and sex drive) and sometimes even wine. This so-called “Peruvian Viagra” costs around $2, but fans of the drink say it’s worth every penny for its tonic effect on the human body.

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