$ 290.00 Price per person in shared service.
Firts day: Uyuni – Colchani – Incahuasi – Huayllajara or San Juan
Before 1 day of your Salt flats tour at 08:30 pm. Pick you up from your hotel in La Paz (downtown at 09:00 pm. Departure Bus La Paz – Uyuni – Arrival 05:00 am. our local operator and / or partner will make pick you up from the bus station in Uyuni, and give detailed information of the tour. Breakfast (off one’s own bat).
The tour begins at 10:00 am with the meeting in the office in Uyuni then heads to to the biggest desert Salt, in vehicle (Land Cruiser – 4×4), on the way visit the following tourist attractions: first visit the train cemetery where you can see the old rusting trains from decades ago.
After this we continue to Colchani and witness how the salt is processed. We have lunch in the village and then move onto the salt flats themselves.
Where we will see the salt has been laced in mounds ready to be transported, the original Playa Blanca salt hotel (no longer used for guests) and visit Inca Huasi Island to see the giant cacti with over 10 meters, and have great views of the salt flats all around.
There will be plenty of time for taking amazing pictures and the salt before we head toward the village of (Huayllajara or San Juan) where we will spend the night (the salt hotel). If time allows, you might also have the chance to see the sunset on the salt flats (this depends on season and cannot be guaranteed, but is usually possible).
Second day: San Juan – Lagoon – Laguna Colorada
We awake early to have breakfast at the salt hotel, after we continue our adventure further south. On the way, we will appreciate of it magnifies it view of the active volcano Ollague, gaps Cañapa, Stinking, Chiarcota and Honda, and see llamas in their natural environment before continuing through the Chuguana desert area where the scenery will include a number of extinct volcanoes plus the semiactive Ollague.
As the journey continues we will pass by high altitude lagoons that are home to 3 species of flamingo before arriving into the desert of Siloli and the “tree of rock”. We then move onto the “Laguna Colorada”, an amazing red colored lake full of flamingos. Here is where we enter the Eduardo Avaroa National Park. In late afternoon Spend the night in Lagoon Red Family House (Basic service).
Third day: Lagoon – Green Lagoon – Uyuni
The third day we will have breakfast and leave early; our tour begins at 5:00 am. to visit the “Sol de Mañana” better known as “Morning Sun”, geysers and see the bubbling mud pools and steam jets., Continue with our trip to the hot springs – Polques, where you can decide to relax in the warm water pools of the local hot springs, then visit to the Lagoons “White and Green” located at the foot of the volcano Licancabur, at an altitude of 4,350 meters, the green color is due to the high content of magnesium that have the geological formations of the area, after our visit to the lakes we return to Uyuni and on the way, we will stop to have lunch and continue our journey through the Valley of the Rocks and typical populations of Villa alota, Kulpinaka and San Cristobal.
We arrive at the town of Uyuni approximately 06:00 pm.
If you desire the transfer to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile and you can do it, but you have to pay the additional cost of $15 USD.
Bus Uyuni – La Paz, Departure: 08:00 pm. – 05.00 am. Arrival. (TODO TURISMO BUS)
In Uyuni: 07:30 pm: presentation in the buses station.
TIMETABLE | ACTIVITIES | DEPARTURE | ARRIVAL |
08:30 pm | Pick You up from the hotel in Paz (Downtown). | 09:00 P.M. Bsu departure from La Paz. | 05:00 A.M. Bus arrival to Uyuni. |
10:00 am | Meeting in the office in Uyuni. | 10:00 A.M. start “Salt flats tour” el 1er día. | 06.00 P.M. approximately Return to Uyuni. |
08:30 pm | Presentation at bus station in Uyuni. | 09:00 P.M. Bus departure from Uyuni. | 05:00 A.M. Arrival to La Paz. |
IT INCLUDES:
- Pick up from your hotel in La Paz (downtown)
- Bus (sleeper seats) La Paz – Uyuni – La Paz
- English guide
- Shared Jeep (Land Cruiser – 4×4) (3 days)
- Meals (2 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 2 dinners)
- Accommodation (Double bed or double room with shared bathroom) (first day)
- Accommodation (traditional families houses) (basic) (Second day)
- First aid kit
DOES NOT INCLUDE:
- Ticket to INCAHUASI ISLAND (30 Bs or 5 USD per person)
- Ticket to National Park (150 Bs or 22 USD per person)
- Public Toilets prices: 2 Bs to 5 Bs.
- Others not mentioned in the tour.
You may take:
- Warm clothing.
- sleeping bag.
- sunglasses, sunscreen and cap.
- camera, gloves.
- Rain poncho (in rainy season).
- Lantern.
- Comfortable walking shoes.
- Toiletries bag.
- Scarf and a lot of energy to pass it really well.
- Additional snacks and beve.