Uyuni Salt Flat & Colored Lagoons

We will pick you up from your hotel at 11:00 approximately, first you will visit the Train Cemetery and the town of Colchani where you can learn more about Uyuni’s mining past and its artisanal salt production present, later you will enter to the amazing Uyuni Salt Flat, and arrive to the “Salt HotelMuseum”, the first of its kind that nowadays works only as a museum. On you way you will be able to see fantastic optic illusions, in raining season (December- March), and also you will visit “Ojos de Agua” (Eyes of water), small salt eruptions which help us to explain the development of this huge salt lake.

At noon, you will reach the “Incahuasi Island” in the middle of the Salt flat; there are extraordinary calcareous rocks, large populations of Cactus, local fauna and spectacular 360 grades panoramic views of the Salt Flat from the summit.
You will continue your tour to the north part of the salt flat, there you'll visit a local museum, where you will be able to see pre-Columbian mummies and later you will get to the Salt Flat viewpoint at the foot of the Thunupa volcano.
In the end of the afternoon, arrival to the town of Tahua for overnight.

Accommodation at “Hotel Tayka de Sal” or similar

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Leaving the salt flat behind you will travel along the volcanoes range with their eternal snow going to Lípez, there you will find the Ollagüe Volcano that you will observe at the distance. Then you restart the trip to the Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, on your way you will appreciate the lagoons called “Joyas Altoandinas” (Jewels from the Highlands): Cañapa, Hedionda, Chiarcota and Honda where you will have the chance to observe three kinds of flamingos of the region: James, Andino and Chileno and also different kinds of local birds.

Later you will visit the Siloli Desert where you will make some stops to take pictures of this magnificent
desert landscapes. Overnight in the desert at an exotic rustic hotel “in the middle of nowhere”.

Accommodation at “Hotel Tayka de Sal” or similar

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This day you need to get up very early in order to start the tour at 06:30 approximately, your first activity is the visit to the famous rock formation the Stone Tree, later you will get to the Eduardo Avaroa National Fauna Reserve, then arriving to the Geysers of “Sol de Mañana” smoky and noisy geysers, boiling mud stewpot where red and grey mud is boiling. Later you will enjoy a bath in the hot springs before you continue your trip in the reserve, on your way you will enjoy the panoramic view of the Dali Desert, there are columns of stones sculpted by the wind that resemble this famous painter work. After that, you will also appreciate the Laguna Verde (Green Lagoon), at the foot of Licancabur volcano.

It’s time to take the road back to Uyuni, you will visit the Laguna Colorada (The Red Lagoon), an impressing water source, the algae and plankton give the lagoon brown or intense red colors, which make it beautiful. You continue your journey, in the afternoon you will take a walk around the Rocks Valley, giant volcanic rocks between 8 to 15 meters high. Your last stop is at San Cristóbal village which has been moved from its original site to the actual one for the needs of one of the biggest mine in Bolivia.

Arrival to Uyuni at 18:00 approximately.

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