The Atlas Obscura Guide to Winter Sun

Every winter sun list is the same list. Somewhere with a beach, ranked by average January temperature, with a paragraph about resorts. The only variable is the number, and the number is available on any weather site for free. Here is a better question. Rather than asking where it happens to be warm in January, ask where January is the only time to go — where the northern winter opens something that is closed, invisible, or actively dangerous the rest of the year. That question has much stranger answers. Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia: the place that only exists in winter Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is

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