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Uyuni Salt Flats is the biggest salt dessert on earth. This classic tour will take you to most attractions included colored lagoons, geysers, hot-springs, surreal deserts and more.
Place: Uyuni downtown
Time: 10:30 A.M.
Place: Uyuni downtown
Time: 05:30 P.M.
4WD vehicle
Accommodation (1st night at a Salt Hostel, 2nd night at a basic accommodation).
Meals during the tour.
Water.
Driver and English speaking guide (according to package).
First aid kit.
Oxishot for emergencies.
English speaking guide.
Entrance fees.
Transportation La Paz – Uyuni.
Tips.
Transfer San Pedro de Atacama.
Transfer airport.
Personal expenses.
Travel insurance.
Warm clothes.
Hat and sunglasses.
Sunscreen.
Trekking shoes.
Camera and extra batteries.
Bolivian cash.
Snacks.
Personal medication.
Hygiene kit.
Swimsuit and towels for hot springs.
Flashlights.
Pick up from the bus terminal and the hotel in Uyuni is included, just wait for us. The tour starts 10:30 from the Tres Gigantes’ office.
The first place to visit is the Train Cemetery, where you can see old railway machines that represent the first railroads of Bolivia that were abandoned. Then visit Colchani town, this place is perfect for shopping crafts, you can also see the extraction and refining of salt.
You will visit the first Hotel made entirely of salt. There is a stop to take pictures in the majestic Salar de Uyuni, which has 10,582km2, later the tour continues on the Incahuasi Island a place where you can see giant cactus with a thousand years of life, in this place you do a walk to the top , there is a spectacular view of the Salar.
At the end of the hike at Incahuasi Island, the jeep crossed the Salar to look for reflections and wait for the sunset.
The trip continues to a shared rooms salt hostal where dinner is served.
The tour starts with breakfast.
Continue with the trip on the way, you can see the Ollague Volcano and the Altiplanic Lagoons of the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve, you go through the desert where there are rock formations, especially the singular Stone Tree. Later, we will move on to visit the Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) where you will learn about the pink flamingos and the reasons for the coloration of this unique lake).
Ending the day you arrive at the Basic Hostel near Laguna Colorada, to then spend the night in shared rooms.
The tour starts very early at 5:00 am to observe the eruptions of the Geysers and fumaroles of Sol de Mañana, which is an area of volcanic activity. Later we will stop by Polkes where the hot springs wait for us to relax and recover energies.
The trip continues through the Dali Desert to appreciate unprecedented and surreal rock formations.
Then there is a stop at Laguna Verde or Esmeralda (Green Lagoon), a point where you can see the Licancabur Volcano.
Finally you will visit San Cristobal Church and return to Uyuni to arrive at 5:30 p.m.
Passengers, who make the transfer to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, depart directly from Hito Cajones in Bolivia, so they won’t visit San Cristobal.
