Salt flat

I caught her eye briefly, a flash of calculation, then that familiar, hard smile.

We had reached the outpost rimming the great salt flat, and everything official felt laughably threadbare.

The survey trailer leaned against its own shadow, the wind scoop antenna rusted to a stump.

No birds, no roads.

He spat on his palm and swiped a clumsy X over his boots, then looked away, shamed.

Anton pressed his hands to the little window.

A thick glass slot cracked and fogged, framing nothing but the relentless grey slurry of swirling salt flat.

You said the building was closer.

So you've got the Andes.

You've got like the Salt Flats and Uni.

You've got the whole Pacific Coast.

You've got the northern part of that Pacific Coast.

I've had clients that have gone and I didn't get there on this trip, but I'm dying to go.

I mean, again, very biodiversity.

That's where all your salt flats and everything are going to be down in that area.

And Titicaca is actually very high altitude as well.

And George, during that, that week-long recce that he had, he, he saw in Matmata these subterranean dwellings, and he then knew that he was going to change the fourth draft of the original film to have the Lars homestead to have the subterranean dwellings and have three pits only, and that was very, uh, mirrored from the Matmata visit that he had, uh, in southern Tunisia.

And then 265 kilometers to the west, he visited the Chott el Djerid salt flats and he said, "I want the Lars homestead exterior to be on salt flats." And so you now have the exterior or the dome, which I think is probably what you're referencing in terms of how is it still there.

Certainly.

You have the dome in southwestern Tunisia, deep, close to the Sahara, and then you have the interior, the subterranean interior where Luke has blue milk in the dining room and the courtyard is there, all that action.

The dome, the, the...

It's not in the...

It is in a desert climate on salt flats that often have terrible storms, and so the dome gets hammered.

And so there's been, since 2000, there has been at least five fan-sourced or NGO-sourced renovation projects to keep restoring the Attack of the Clones-era dome.