Uyuni Salt Flat

Crossing the largest salt lakes in the world (12,000 sq km) at the elevation of 3650m is possibly the most surreal and amazing experience you will ever encounter. The landscape is extraordinarily beautiful, blindingly white desert surrounded by extinct volcanoes and dazzling red and emerald lakes. Incahuasi Island (often referred to by the misnomer Isla del Pescador) located in the middle of the Salar is home to hundreds of giant cacti captured in the scenic rocky landscape which contrasts strikingly with the salt flats. There are many opportunities to see Andean wildlife in their natural habitat, including the very elegant and rare pink James flamingos. Adding to the mystique are steaming geysers, boiling mud pots and a chance to experience the welcoming sensation of hot springs in the wilderness at a comfy 30ºC

UYUNI SALT FLAT - Southern Colored Lakes

Program 3 days / 2 nights

Available throughout the year

Day 1: Uyuni - Incahuasi Island - Salt Hotel
Depart 10:30 am from Uyuni
Visit Colchani where salt is extracted
Visit Incahuasi Island, take a short walk and have lunch
Go to the Basic Salt Hotel and spend the night in a basic lodge with double rooms, twin rooms and dormitories for 6 people with shared bathroom facilities, showers are an additional Bs.10.

Day 2: Salt Hotel - National Park - Red Lagoon
Leave at 7:30 am
Visit the altiplanic lagoons
Visit the Siloli desert and see the Stone Tree
Enter National Reservation and visit the Red Lagoon
Spend the night in a basic refuge with dormitories for 6 people, and with shared bathroom facilities. No shower.

Day 3: Red Lagoon - Geysers - Hot spring - Green Lagoon - Uyuni
Leave at 5:00 am
Visit the Geysers
Take a dip in the thermal baths/hot springs
Visit the Green Lagoon – see flamingos
Visit the White Lagoon
Visit the Valley of the Rocks
18.00 return to Uyuni

Note: For those hoping to head for San Pedro de Atacama, you will be transferred after the Green Lagoon and arriving to San Pedro de Atacama in the early afternoon.

Uyuni Salt Flats Tour

Included

• 2 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 2 dinners
• 2 Nights accommodation
• Driver is your guide (very basic English)
• Transport 4WD

Not Included

• Transport La Paz - Uyuni - La Paz
• Beverages and alcoholic drinks
• Tips
• Entrance fee to the National Reserve Bs. 150
• Entrance fee to Fish Island  Bs.30
• Drinking water 2L a day
Option to upgrade to private tours – with private rooms and bathrooms etc

Essentials

• Warm clothing
• Sweater/fleece
• Hiking boots
• Sleeping bag
• High factor sun block
• Sunglasses (preferably polarized)
• Hat/gloves/scarf
• Sleepwear
• Drinking water 2L per day

Optional

• Camera
• Binoculars
• Thermal underwear
• Lighter
• Throat sweets
• Baby wipes