Discover the largest salt flat in the world!
4 Days / 3 Nights
Uyuni
USD 1399
Discover the marvel of the world’s largest salt flat! The Salar serves as the major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano and is a prime breeding ground for several species of flamingos. Also We will discover the several Lagoons in this area and will experience amazing moments being part of nature. Embark on an extraordinary adventure that will enrich your senses!
Pick up from the hotel and depart into the Salt Flats of Uyuni, the largest and highest in the world. It resembles an impressive, overwhelming and solitary white ocean in which below the surface is largely saturated by water creating the Eyes of Salt. Visit the Salt Polygons and the salt mounds, signs of the daily mineral extraction. Picnic lunch in the middle of the Salt Flats. Continuing onward, visit to the northern part of the salt flats to visit the Mummies of Coqueza, a family group of incredible remains preserved for more than 500 years, these are located in the Tunupa Volcano slopes, this volcano represents guardian of the communities surrounding the salt flats and an important figure in Inca and Andean cultures of the place. Next visit to the viewpoint of the volcano to appreciate the salt flat from an elevated view and the colorful fields of quinoa. As the last attraction, visit the Chiquini Cave, an underwater cave before the formation of the glaciers characterized by the incredible shapes of the stalagmites and stalactites that compose it. Transfer to the Salt Hotel in Colchani.
Breakfast and departure for visiting the Colchani village, a small local center of salt factories where handcrafted processes are possible to observe. Continuing onward, visit to the largest island in this ecosystem, Incahuasi, populated with giant cacti species that measure up to 40 feet in height, providing impressive contrast and panorama of the place. Picnic lunch in the middle of the Salt Flats. At the end of the day, watch the sunset immersed in a horizon of amazing and ethereal colors.
Transfer to the hotel.
Breakfast and departure to the Train Cemetery, an abandoned railway complex from the 19th century. Leaving Uyuni to start the journey in the Authentic Towns of Lipez: San Cristobal, known for being a mine center village from the colonial age; Culpina K, iconic region of the cultivation of the golden grain of royal quinoa.
After that you visit the awesome Rock Valley, stones with more than 8 meters high forming a natural sculpture in the middle of the imposing high plateau, next visit to the Ollague Volcano Viewpoint to contemplate a dark stone and very particular volcanic rocks in a totally desert landscape. Lunch picnic on route. Once in the region, you will visit the Smalls Lagoons or Andean Jewels, a set of lagoons characterized by each being particular to the other in its color, smell and chemical compounds that make them so particular within this biodiversity. Transfer to the rustic lodge.
Breakfast and departure to the Siloli Desert, one of the driest deserts in the world characterized by having rock formations in the middle of the changing dunes, is the gateway to the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve, the most visited national park in Bolivia. Continuing with the journey, you visit the Stone Tree, a natural sculpture sculpted by wind erosion over thousands of years.
The next attraction is the particular Red Lagoon, unique for its abundance of algae and plankton, which give it its color and have it populated with flamingos, including the James flamingo that was thought to be extinct. Picnic lunch on route. Then you will arrive at the “Sol de Mañana” geysers, nice fumaroles over a geothermal area that extend for more than 10 square kilometers, very close to these you will reach the Polques Hot Springs, which are also a product of the volcanic activity of the region, high in medicinal minerals. As the last attraction of the tour, you will visit the Green Lagoon, a small iconic lagoon that tends to have a very emerald color due to the microorganisms that compose it; being the natural boundary between Bolivia and Chile, at the end of this visit you return to the city of Uyuni and the services conclude at the airport.
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