Private Tour Uyuni Salt Flat and Minor Lagoons

Day 1

Salar de Uyuni - Train Cemetery - Colchani - Ojos del Salar - Salt Statue of the Dakar Rally - Former Salt Hotel Playa Blanca - Incahuasi Island - Sunset inside the Salar de Uyuni

We will start our journey traveling 3 Kilometers away from Uyuni where we will find the Train Cemetery, a place that shelters dozens of old locomotives and wagons from the year 1890.

The remains of the trains take us on an imaginary journey to a time of flourishing progress, today transformed into a rustic deserted courtyard ideal for the romantic traveler who likes to photograph traces of a not so distant past.

We will then travel to the town of Colchani, a small town of salt producers located 20 km from Uyuni. In Colchani you will visit a traditional salt factory, where you can observe the way in which the salt extracted from the Salar is packed. You will have some free time to buy salt handicrafts.

Next, we will enter the wonderful Salar de Uyuni. At the entrance of the Salar you will see the Eyes of the Salar which are small streams of water that flow from the interior of the earth under the salt. It is said that this water has healing properties due to its saline and acidic concentrations.

In the dry season, the surface of the Salar de Uyuni is covered by near geometrical shapes formed by the salt particles agglomerated into polygons. In the rainy season (December, January, February and part of March) the Salar is covered with water and resembles a giant mirror.

During our journey we will observe the Statue of Salt erected to mark the passing of the Dakar Rally in Bolivia. Then we will walk to the old Hotel de Sal Playa Blanca. Next to the Hotel there is a small mound with several flags from around the world. These symbolic flags have been left by travelers visiting Salar de Uyuni. We invite you to carry a flag of your country and leave it at this significant point.

We will have lunch enjoying the beautiful landscape inside the Salar.

We will continue our trip traveling to the Incahuasi Island, home of millenary giant cacti (Echinopsis atacamensis) up to 10 meters high. The Incahuasi Island is a genuine spectacle of life inside the salt desert.

We will climb the island until we reach the viewpoint, from which we will have a 360 degree perspective of the Salar de Uyuni and a privileged view of the Tunupa Volcano.

Our expedition would not be complete without witnessing a wonderful sunset inside the Salar de Uyuni.

Lodging in a Hotel de Sal. The Salt Hotels offer rooms with private bathroom, hot water, heating and WiFi Internet. Depending on availability, we will include lodging at Luna Salada Hotel, Hotel Palacio de Sal or at the Hotel de Sal Tayka.

Day 2

Salar de Chiguana - Observation of the Ollague Volcano - Cañapa Lagoon - Turquiri Lagoon - Hedionda Lagoon - Valle de las Rocas - San Cristobal - Uyuni

The second day of our expedition will take us to the southern part of the Uyuni region. This region offers visitors wonderful landscapes decorated by volcanoes, lagoons and Andean fauna.

During our tour we will cross the Chiguana salt flat, which has a lower salt concentration.

On the way we will see varied rock formations and the Ollague volcano (5870 m.s.) located on the border of Bolivia and Chile.

We will have lunch in the middle of nature.

We will enjoy the beauty of the Alto Andinas Jewelry Route comprised of the Cañapa Lagoon, Chiarkota Lagoon, Turquiri Lagoon (4,114 m.m.) and Hedionda Lagoon (4,532 m). The lagoons are surrounded by mountains and during the winter you can see the snowy peaks. This area is ideal for lovers of nature and photography. It is impossible to take a bad picture of these landscapes, they are all worthy of a postcard.

We will visit the Valle de las Rocas, also known as the Lost Italy, and then continue to the town of San Cristobal and our final destination, the town of Uyuni.