天空之镜――乌尤尼盐沼.docVIP

天空之镜――乌尤尼盐沼第一次看到乌尤尼盐沼的照片时，Grace不禁怀疑这些图片的真实性――世上真有这样一面镜子？你确定不是PS的杰作吗？在玻利维亚的乌尤尼盐沼，你可以真正体验到何为无穷无尽。这个广袤的盐沼在覆盖了水之后会变成全世界最大的镜子，放眼望去，你根本分不清哪里是天，哪里是地。传说中的“not of this Earth”大概就是这样吧。 Have you ever wanted to visit another planet but dont quite have the wallet power? If you want to feel the out-of-this-world experience, you could try the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia. It is one of the landscapes on planet Earth where you may feel that you are somewhere else in the universe entirely. This place is 1)immense. It is over ten thousand square kilometers in area, which makes it the largest salt flat in the world. It?s also the highest salt flat in the world at 3,656 meters above sea level. The Uyuni Salt Flat is what remains of a 2)prehistoric lake. All around it there are mountains, which means there are no 3)drainage 4)outlets and the salt is left at the old bed of the lake. The origin of the Uyuni goes back some 40,000 years. At that time, the area was part of a huge prehistoric lake, Lake Minchin. With time the lake dried up. Two lakes still remain―the Uru Uru and the Poopó. Two salt flats were left―the smaller Coipasa Salt Flat and the Uyuni. It is thought that the salt flat contains up to ten billion tons of salt. From a distance, the salt flat appears like an 5)enormous ocean, still and white. The 6)tiles on the flat stretch on as if to 7)infinity―and beyond. It looks like something out of a science-fiction film. When there is rain―as there is occasionally even at this altitude―then something magical happens. The salt flat becomes a mirror of the sky. Just as you think you have seen it all, something else comes in to view that will astonish you. You will also get the opportunity to see the amazing “tree” made out of rock. The strangeness of our planet is 8)exemplified by this peculiar product of thousands of years of 9)erosion. You may not have heard of Uyuni, but our astronauts have. It is used as a target for 10)calibrating and testi