Salt flats around the globe are known for their intoxicating visuals and otherworldly feel. Russian photographer Daniel Kordan recently made the trek to Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia—the world's largest salt flat—and shot the Milky Way as it reflected off of the mineral-covered plain. "There are not so many places in the world where you can enjoy absolute dark sky," Kordan tells us in an email. "Light pollution is in the cities and even small villages." The results are a stunning fusion of the Earth and cosmos—at times, it's hard to tell where the two begin and end.

The Altiplano region of west-central South America—known for being completely dark—rises 12,300-feet above sea level. At night, Kordan was unable to see anything and could only feel his car as he drove through water and salt. "It seemed that we floated in open space," Kordan told My Modern Met. "Our spaceship is parked in a distance, and stars are blinking with blue, red and yellow colors. You stand in the deep night with stars above you, aside from you and underneath!"

It seemed that we float in the open space. Our spaceship is parked in a distance, and stars are blinking with blue, red and yellow colors," Kordan described the shoot in an email to Quartz. "You stand in the deep night with stars above you, aside from you and underneath! It's space on Earth, isn't it?" The DSLR camera Kordan used unlocks the colors in the sky and casts the reflective Milky Way glow onto the flats. Kordan described the sight as "space on Earth."

The luminous glow of the Milky Way galaxy onto the plain looks like something that only exists in a dream. Kordan is headed to the Faroe Islands and Greenland to lead workshops on how to capture a magical landscape, just in case you're looking to book an impromptu inspiration vacation. Half of the world's 11 million tons of unexploited lithium, a key component in lithium-ion batteries, happen to lie beneath the Salar de Uyuni, leading to a recent boom in lithium mining in the country. Image credit: Instagram.com/danielkordan