Uyuni Salt Flats, Lagoons & Deserts
TOUCH & GO
LA PAZ – UYUNI – LA PAZ
DAY01: LA PAZ – UYUNI
Private land transfer to the city of Oruro (237km), Lunch in a local restaurant. 15:30 departure by train towards Uyuni and arrival, reception and transfer to your hotel.
(Land transfer 3h + 7 of train) (Meals:B,L) (Walking. 1h) (altitude: 3.722m)
DAY02: UYUNI SALT FLATS – TUNUPA VOLCANO – UYUNI
After a lovely breakfast, we start our adventure getting to Salar of Uyuni. Prepare your camera! The amazing white coat of the Salar de Uyuni (or Thunupa) looks like a huge glacier. We will enter the Salar by Colchani, where we will stop to visit the salt factory and we will receive comments on the salt family economy which command the life of this village. Once the first visit is done, we will enter the Salar and stop at the salt mounts from where we will continue to the dominating and magic Thunupa Volcano. We will ascend a part of the volcano with the car to the Coquesa Mummies. From this point we will have a nice view upon the monumental Salar. Afterwards we continue towards the Incahuasi Island, one of the central tourist attractions. We will follow the little path to arrive at the top of the island from where we will get the amazing 360 º view on the Salar. After lunch we will make our way back to Uyuni passing for a brief visit to the old train cemetery to observe and admire the bizarre landscape this place offers. Back to the hotel to relax and in the evening night train to Oruro or direct bus connection (luxury bus) to La Paz.
(Train 7h or bus 11h direct to La Paz) (Meals:B,L,D) (Walking. 3h) (altitude: 3.722m)
DAY03: ORURO – LA PAZ
07:30 Arrival in Oruro, transfer to the bus station and bus ride towards La Paz, arrival at noon.
Option bus: 06:30 Arrival in La Paz, transfer to your hotel.
We include:
Exclusive 4x4 vehicles for Salar de Uyuni
TKT bus/train best class available
Permanent guiding and assistance in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish upon Bolivian border
02 nights 3* hotel in Uyuni
Mentioned meals (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner fixed menu)
Mentioned visits
Not included: Any kind of beverages in hotels for restaurants, entrances fees to Incahuasi Island or other sites where is necessary a payment, tips, extra expenses in hotels, airport taxes, baggage handling or other not mentioned services.
PACIFIC OCEAN CONNECTION
LA PAZ – UYUNI – LAGOONS – SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA IN CHILE
DAY01: LA PAZ – UYUNI
Land transfer to the city of Oruro (237km). Lunch in a local restaurant. 15:30 departure by train towards Uyuni and arrival 22:20. Reception and transfer to our hotel located in Colchani. Overnight in the unique salt hotel “Luna Salada” – welcome dinner.
(Land transfer 3h + 7 of train) (Meals:B,L,D) (Walking. 1h) (altitude: 3.722m)
DAY02: UYUNI SALT FLATS – TUNUPA VOLCANO – QUEMEZ
After a lovely breakfast, we start our adventure getting to Salar of Uyuni. Prepare your camera! The amazing white coat of the Salar de Uyuni (or Thunupa) looks like a huge glacier. We will enter the Salar by Colchani, where we will stop to visit the salt factory and we will receive comments on the salt family economy which command the life of this village. Once the first visit is done, we will enter the Salar and stop at the salt mounts from where we will continue to the dominating and magic Thunupa Volcano. We will ascend a part of the volcano with the car to the Coquesa Mummies.
From this point we will have a nice view upon the monumental Salar. Afterwards we continue towards the Incahuasi Island which is one of the central tourist attractions. We will follow the little path to arrive at the top of the island from where we will get the amazing 360 º view on the Salar. After lunch we will continue toward the Mala Mala Bahia, to find the Galaxia Cave where we will find a cactus sanctuary and petrified stromatolites and finally a Chullpas cemetery (ancestral burying) The cave presents a very peculiar sub-aquatic geological formation from the era of the Michin Lake (300.000 years ago) and from the Tauca Lake (40.000 years ago).
We will continue the expedition driving these fantastic deserts gather all the colors from browns, reds, oranges, brass, coffee and beige which are successively shown at every curve of the trip. We enter into the area of the lagoons chain of Cañapa, Hedionda, Chiarkota, Honda and Ramaditas, where we will see a good quantity of the three kinds of flamingos and other kinds of birds as andean seagulls and wild ducks. These birds live in the lagoons alongside of the volcanoes with their eternal snow on the top and their green sides mixed with other colors made by the borax and sulphur. In this area you will find the Tayka Desert Hotel, with private bathroom, hot water and heating, welcome dinner and overnight in very comfortable rooms.
(Land transfer 4-5h) (Meals:B,L,D) (Walking. 3h) (altitude: 3.890m to 4.700m)
DAY03: QUEMEZ – COLOURED LAGOONS – OJO DE PERDIZ
This is a quite long and hard day for the length of the way. We will start this day early to see the desert under the lights of the sunset. Later on, we will appreciate the svelte figure of the wild Vicuñas entering the Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve. We will continue to the next gem of the reserve, La Laguna Colorada (The Colored Lagoon) which is the main flamingos nesting site. The red color of the lagoon and of the flamingos comes from the effect of the solar radiations and wind on the algae and plankton. We will visit the Stone Tree and see Yaretas and Vizcachas (wild desert rabbit). Then we will arrive to the Geysers of Sol de mañana during the most active moment and with the first ray of lights. This point is the higher altitude of the tour. We will be over 5.000 meters above the sea level. The cold is intense and we will be able to walk among the smoky and noisy geysers, boiling mud stew pot where red and grey mud is boiling like water. The desert and Salar of Chalviri are sceneries of big value, which combine the white of the snow, the red brown of the desert, with the blue of the water. In this place we will have the opportunity to have a bath in the Hot Springs of Polques and then to have a delicious open air breakfast.
Then you will take the way to the Ladies of the Desert, Chef d’oeuvre of the wind work. The columns of stones sculpted by the wind show fantastic colors. After that we will arrive at the feet of Licancabur volcano to appreciate La Laguna Verde (the Green Lagoon, one of the pearl of the reserve) at its best moment to observe the change of color from emerald green to deeper green. We will have lunch on the shore of the Green Lagoon. Not far away there is the border checkpoint at Hito Cajones, brief check and transfer to another vehicle to enter in to Chile. Arrival in San Pedro de Atacama an overnight in a desert hotel.
(Land transfer 4-5h) (Meals:B,L) (Walking. 3h) (altitude: 4.890m / 5.032 / 3.800)
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