in bolivia there is a hotel that is
entirely made of salt
the walls the chairs the beds everything
is made of salt
it's out here in the middle of nowhere
yet thousands of tourists come here to
visit it
how can you build a hotel out of salt
how much does it cost per night and does
it melt when it rains
in bolivia let me introduce you to the
first salt hotel in the world hi nice
daily my name is juan gabriel quezada my
father and i built palacio de sal the
first hotel in the world thirty years
ago juan's father was a tourist guide
and he would often come to this salt
flat the uyuni salt flat in the middle
of the bolivian desert my father was one
of the fields guide here in
back then there was nothing there except
for salt for kilometers on end
where you and i would only see salt
juan's father actually saw a palace a
salt palace he just had this vision in
his mind all this salt everywhere what
if he could build something out of it so
juan's father spent all his savings
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much back to the video to hire some
workers and started making bricks out of
salt even though he was not an engineer
if people can make bricks out of clay
why not try to make them out of salt
after all i am in a salt desert to make
one brick they simply took blocks of
salt from the ground then this sculpted
them and solidified them together with
water
to make sure the salt doesn't melt in
the rain they coated the bricks with
fiberglass
finally they put the bricks on top of
each other and after four years they
ended up with this
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they had the place now they needed the
furniture so they made these smaller
bricks and put them together to build
all the chairs tables and walls that you
see here
at that point my father looked at this
his hotel it was good but he knew he
could make it amazing
in the middle of the desert it is hard
to bring supply this is why juan's
father did not hesitate to pick apart
the whole hotel and build it again here
in a more accessible part of the salt
flat this time even bigger and better
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people can't believe that everything is
made of salt sometimes guests
leak things used to make sure but it is
okay we don't mind soon enough people
started showing up in front of this
crazy salt hotel to sleep there now we
can give a five-star service
at the end of the day all you really
need is a spark of genius and a pinch of
salt