The world’s strangest hotel, located near the Andes Mountains in South America, is made entirely of salt.
At this resort on Earth’s largest salt lake, 10,000 tons were used to make furniture, walls, flooring, sculptures, and even featured prominently on the menu.
Hotel Palacio de Sal, which means “Salt Palace,” is built on the shores of Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric lake in Bolivia that has dried up and left 4,000 square miles of salt desert.
Charming photos show columns and walls inside the hotel carved from pale salt-based bricks.
In some rooms, the floor is covered in a sand-like material made from salt, and some have large white sofas made from salt.
The restaurant’s menu boasts “salty dishes” made with llama meat, lamb, and chicken.
One hotel staff member said guests are “surprised” when they visit and “lick the walls and furniture… to see if it’s made of salt.”
The outside of the building is also made of the same material, which is harvested from the salt flats just a few meters away.
The roof is also made of salty dome.
The hotel reportedly used one million 35cm blocks of compressed salt grains, totaling a whopping 10,000 tonnes, and took two years to complete.
From your hotel bedroom, you can see the vast South American desert.
And to balance the stark whiteness of the salty foundation, dark or light-colored soft furniture is used.
Naturally, saltwater baths are also part of the hotel’s spa experience.
One of the bedrooms has a concave dome ceiling made of salt bars, and the bathroom sink appears to be made of some kind of salt-based marble.
Just outside the entrance, a walkway is lined with white stones, probably also made of salt.
Hotels in Bolivia are located 12,000 feet above sea level and are surrounded by seemingly snowy surroundings.
But the salty ground is actually made up of individual crystals that crunch beneath your feet.
Salar de Uyuni is considered one of the most impressive places to visit on earth.
Sometimes the nearby lake floods, and a thin layer of water covers the apartment, turning it into a reflective mirror under the sky.