Salar de Uyuni

Very timely and very well presented and informed testimony, Gudrun

Thanks a lot, Judite!

Wonderful and interesting images Gudrun.
Visited (many years ago) the Salinas Grandes in Argentin: www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/45788426

Many thanks, Jaap! We came through Salinas Grandes on our way to Bolivia.

Schöne Serie und ein genialer Durchblick! Wünsche dir ein schönes Wochenende!

Herzlichen Dank, Karl!

Wahnsinns Landschaft!

Danke vielmals, Stephan! Der Südwesten von Bolvien ist landschaftlich der absolute Hammer.

Karge, aber wunderschöne Landschaft, die du uns in tollen Bildern zeigst!

Besten Dank, Jo!

Three beautiful and slightly surreal surreal landscapes..........that will possibly not be as attractive in the future. Mining for these precious minerals is increasing all over the world.........and it's easy to see why Russia and China are involved and I doubt the indigenous people will see much of the profits made..!!

I love the framing in your main image and the landscape in the second PiP, both of which are beautifully captured.

My favourite is the image in the first PiP. The sky and cloud formations are gorgeous and I love the earthy colours in the foreground. The hills provide some great interest along the horizon, and of course, the llamas are just lovely..!!

Thank you so much, Keith! Lithium mining uses an enormous amount of water in a region that has very little- a recipe for disaster- and the locals won't see a single peso of the profits. Even if after the next election (Conservatives are in the lead) China will be replaced by the US it won't change a thing.

C'est épouvantable, mais où vas t-on... le profit plus que jamais !

Merci beaucoup, Jocelyne! Sadly that mankind is incapable of learning.

Drei atemberaubende Aufnahmen!!!!!!!!*******************************
.....und ein weniger atemberaubender Text dazu.....................

Schönen Dank, Nouchet! ich bin froh, die Gegend noch relativ "unverdorben" gesehen zu haben.

Ein toller Durchblick!
Sehr schön auch die PiPs. Man kann nur hoffen, dass die Zerstörung dieser faszinierenden Landschaft bald aufhört.

Herzlichen Dank, Wiebke! Ich sehe da leider wenig Anlass zu Optimismus...

Feine Bildgestaltung!

Besten Dank, Lutz!

Profit kennt keine Grenzen.
Kammeraufnahme von Dir

Schönen Dank, Uwe! In nicht allzuferner Zukunft wird der Altiplano unbewohnbar:-(

JOLI********

Merci bien, Franck!

How tragic that the locals could be displaced.

Many thanks, Esther! In the not too far future the whole altiplano might become inhabitable for lack of water.

Danke, dass du uns mitnimmst in ferne Welten. Immer wieder toll!

Danke vielmals, Chrissy!

Thanks for sharing with us the lithium scoop about Bolivia.
These three pictures are pure wonders !

Thank you so much, Léopold! The Salar de Uyuni is one of the wonders of this world, at least in my eyes:-)

Stark! ***

Herzlichen Dank, Lothar!

Traumhafter Durchblick auf eine sehr einsame Landschaft.

Schönen Dank, Percy!

Whow ist das schön...und total unrealistisch...die Lamas mag ich, samt Wolkendecke und Salzsee!
Toll, was Du schon alles erlebt hast Gudrun!

Due Landschaft dort oben hat was Surreales und man staunt, wie da Menschen überleben können. Herzlichen Dank für den ausführlichen Besuch, Tanja!

How sad for the local people. The powerful nations are greedy for these resources.

Australia has one of the biggest lithium reserves, and is the biggest producer of lithium by weight, with most of its production coming from mines in Western Australia. Most Australian lithium is produced from hard-rock spodumene, in contrast to other major producers like Argentina, Chile and China, which produce it mainly from salt lakes.

The world's largest hard-rock lithium mine, the Greenbushes mine, is in Western Australia. It is co-operated by the Chinese company Tianqi Lithium and the Australian companies Talison Lithium and IGO Limited.
Wikipedia

Thanks very much, Gillian! That's highly interesting, I only knew about lithium from salt lakes. The Chinese seem to be involved everywhere...

Schöner Durchblick!

Danke vielmals, Edna!

Toller Durch- und Einblick nach Bolivien

Großen Dank, Karin!

Eine traumhafte Aussicht!

Schönen Dank, Kay!

tolle Serie im schönen Farbenspiel

Besten Dank, Leo!

wonderful and sad... heard from a local that under morales, bolivia turned into a narco state also

Thank you so much, m̌ ḫ !
Initially the Morales government wasn't bad at all but as usual too much power for too long changes people for the worse and corruption takes hold. Now he's hiding in his Chapare jungle fortress...

Shame on humanity's greed, and we are given no choice. I see old people struggling because they don't have internet or n/and the skills, if they don't get help they are stuck with almost everything.
Happy to be on the way out...
Your photos are amazingly beautiful, don't even want to i,agine the changes in 15 years and the fate of the inhabitants...

Obrigada, Isabel! Indeed, greed rules:-( But I'm afraid it always has been like this: when I was a student Eduardo Galeano's Las venas abiertas de América Latina was more or less required reading....
You are so right about people struggling: administrations, banks and everybody else now expect you to have a smartphone thereby excluding people without internet skills. I still don't have a smartphone and therefore have to print out tickets etc. - but people without internet cannot even do that and have to find someone to help them. In my federal state they expected 90 year olds to book their initial Covid vaccinations online....

I had smartphones since they existed, before that I carried all the time a Radiocom bag because I had to me reachable 24/24... and I got used to it, had the first Sony Ericsson one could carry on a bag, they were big, this was the early nineties. After jubiltion I carried on, considering it was a security and also practical. Nowadays I kept with Apple products (since the first one), but I use it as a tool, I am not enslaved by it like too many persons... and except here I don't do socials.

If you needed to carry a phone all the time that's quite different, you got used ot it from the start, so to speak:-) I do have an unsmart mobile phone and I know that one of these days I'll have to get a smartphone but I keep putting it off;-)

Lese grad, dass hier in der Nähe(Sachsen-Anhalt) Lithium entdeckt wurde.
Alle jubeln schon, dass Dtl. nun unabhängiger von China werden könnte. Ich bin da skeptisch. Verm. wird wieder nur eine Landschaft zerstört, und dann zieht die Karawane weiter ...