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Salt desert 🌍

2024年10月10日 17:13 · 来自 天空之城

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This is the place that impressed me the most during my trip around the USA.Bonneville Salt Flats is a place where nature and speed meet in full force. Once there was a large lake here, which dried up, leaving behind a gigantic, flat surface covered in salt. These salt flats are a geological wonder - flat, hard and vast, ideal not only for scientists, but also for those who want to break speed records. Interestingly, the entire area is not devoid of life. A lot of insects, led by locusts, which stung me so much that the wound on my neck took 2 weeks to heal 😱It is here, on these flat areas, that speed records have been broken since the 1930s. Motoring legends came to see how fast they could go, and in 1964 Craig Breedlove broke the magical barrier of 600 km/h! The following decades brought even more attempts and records, making Bonneville a true mecca for fans of extreme driving.The history of these salt flats is equally interesting – in the past they were used by Native Americans, and