Dunes of seven natural colours.
A salt lake turned pink by algae, where salt-gatherers wade waist-deep and the water floats you.
Surreal salt pans stretching to the horizon.
Dead camelthorn trees, 900 years old, black against a white clay pan and the world’s tallest red dunes.
Eerie avenue of ancient beech trees.
Submerged sunken forest in a turquoise lake.
Eroded "moon landscape" near the coast.
Rusting steam locomotives abandoned on the edge of the salt flats a century ago — a surreal stop on the way to the Salar.
Wind-carved chalk mushrooms and icebergs of rock glowing at sunset — camp overnight under the Sahara stars.
Green railway tunnel formed by trees arching over a working track.
White dune fields that fill with turquoise rain lagoons every wet season.
Mineral springs that have petrified into white waterfalls of stone above the Oaxaca valleys, with cliff-edge pools you can swim in.
The "river of five colours", turned red by aquatic plants between June and November.
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