Cool Optical Illusions – Salar Uyuni, Bolivia

Cool Optical Illusions on a Salt Pan

Cool Optical Illusions are something that you can create as a tourist activity at the Salar Uyuni, in Bolivia. Many travellers who go through this spectacular part of South America set up all sorts of visual and optical distortions and tricks because it’s hard to do this in other places in the world where you have a landscape that is interrupted by all sorts of physical features.

For example, the pictures I’ve included below are some of the distorted images you can create at the Salar Uyuni Salt Pans, just because the place is so flat.  For example, check out this photo of a Bus Driving Through the Landscape of the Salar De Uyuni.

Just set your camera down, ask people to move backward or forward, place a few random objects on the ground, and then take the photo. There is a lot of impressive nothing around. You can drive for hours and hours on the salt pans and see nothing but flat salt pans for ages. While this landscape might be lots of ‘nothing’, this is what makes it memorable – and that’s why I call these endless tracts of land ‘impressive nothing’!

At the Salar Uyuni, you can create a whole new world with your camera lens that doesn’t usually exist normally. For example, here is what you can achieve when playing around with the camera:

The Pringle Tin Tunnel. I can’t wait to eat all of those enormous chips!

You can also balance two hefty men on each hand without even raising a sweat!

Hence, the Salar Uyuni is a great place to practice these Cool Optical Illusions.

You can take these kinds of photos after you visit the Most Enterprising Man in Bolivia.

Check out more at An Insider’s Guide to Bolivia.