This is one of the most breathtaking trips you can do in Bolivia, a 3 days tour to Uyuni Salt Flats. Embark on an unforgettable expedition in a 4x4 Toyota land cruiser through vast and blinding-white salt flats of Uyuni and into desert of southwest Bolivia. Along the way, visit tiny villages, multi-colored lagoons with flamingos, geysers, and thermal hot-springs at 5,000 masl. If you are traveling to Bolivia, this is a trip that can't be missed!
DAY 1: UYUNI - INCAHUASI ISLAND
One day before the tour at 7:00 p.m. We are going to pick you up from your hotel in La Paz (downtown). At 8:00 p.m. departure of bus La Paz - Uyuni and we'll arrive at 5:00 a.m. We'll pick you up from Uyuni bus station and you'll have free time for breakfast until start time of tour.
Our adventure to Salar de Uyuni starts at 10:30 a.m. visiting the Train Cemetery, which are remnants of machinery dating from late nineteenth century, after 30 minutes we will arrive at Colchani, a small town dedicated to processing of salt, If you like to buy crafts made with salt or textiles, llama or alpaca wool is a good place to choose one, then prepare to see wonderful Salar de Uyuni that has more than 10,000 square kilometers, within Salar you will appreciate mounds of Salt (small pyramids of salt that people of the town do, to dry and then process the salt), then you will see Salar Eyes (which are natural conduits where salt water circulates and end up in holes), crossing the immense glacier of salt will know the first and only Salt Hotel (Museum), here we will have a delicious lunch; then continuing with tour we'll go to Incawasi Island or Isla del Pescado, named for its fish shape, giant cactus habitat of more than 10 meters, petrified coral rock formations and a spectacular panoramic view of Salar, by the Later we'll arrive at the small town of Coquesa that is at the foot of Tunupa Volcano, where you'll spend the night.
DAY 2: ALTIPLANO LAGOONS AND RED COLORED LAGOON
After breakfast we'll continue our adventure, this time to Red Colored Lagoon. On way we will see active volcano Ollague (5,865 masl), the lagoons of Cañapa, Hedionda, Chiarcota, Honda and Ramaditas lagoon, these lagoons are populated by many flamingos.
During day, we stop on the road for lunch and in afternoon we'll continue our trip, we are going to see the Siloli desert, where we can find interesting rock formation known as Stone tree, whose evolution and shape are due to wind erosion of time.
And later prepare to see the famous red colored lagoon or "Laguna Colorada", named for the reddish color of its waters; Laguna Colorada is gateway to Eduardo Abaroa National Reserve.
Around Laguna Colorada, exactly in the small town of Huayllajara, we'll overnight, the accommodation will be in a simple and basic hostel with shared rooms with other tourists, it's only place to spend the night.
DAY 03: GREEN COLORED LAGOON - UYUNI
The third day we'll leave very early, before the first rays of sun come out, to be able to appreciate Geisers - fumaroles in the volcanic zone (4,950 meters above sea level), better known as "Sol de Mañana" then we'll continue to the thermal hot springs of Polques, whose waters have a temperature of 28 ° to 30 ° centigrade; there we'll have breakfast and then we are going to continue to white colored lagoon and green colored lagoon, located at the foot of Licancabur volcano, (4,350 masl), green color is due to the high magnesium content of the geological formations of the area.
After our visit to the lagoons we'll return to Uyuni and on the way we'll have a stop to have lunch and continue our trip through the Valley of Rocks, where there are huge and giant blocks of rocks some on others reddish and polished by the nature and erosion of the wind; finally, we'll pass through the typical towns of Villa Alota, Kulpinaka and San Cristóbal.
We will arrive at Uyuni at approximately 6:00 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. you have to be at Uyuni bus station to take the bus from Uyuni – La Paz.