Uyuni Salt Flat and Eduardo Avaroa Park 3 Day tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
CROSSING THE UYUNI SALT FLAT: THE TRAINS GRAVEYARD, HOTEL MADE OF SALT, AND THE ISLAND WITH CACTI AND PETRIFIED CORAL
3 stops
1
Train Cemetery
This adventure starts with meeting the group in our office in Uyuni where you can leave your luggage if you wish, then we will leave the town of Uyuni around 10:30 a.m. to visit the Uyuni train cemetery. In this special and enigmatic place, travelers will find old wagons that were abandoned more than half a century ago in the desert.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
2
Colchani
Afterward, you can enjoy Colchani (salt miners' workshops), where you can see handicrafts made of salt and textile art made of llamas and alpacas. Then, visit “Ojos de Agua Salada”, where water bubbles through the salt plains, and a hotel made entirely of salt that is used as a museum nowadays.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
3
Isla Incahuasi
Next, hike up to “Incahuasi Island” to see tall Cactus and rock formations made of petrified coral ( Make sure to take photographs from a different perspective). Then we will enjoy lunch. Afterward, enjoy the unique experience of watching a beautiful sunset over the salt flats. Finally, around 7:00 pm we will arrive at our hostel for dinner and rest in shared rooms (double rooms or triple rooms).
15 hours • Admission ticket not included
Day 2
LAKES AND VOLCANOS
2 stops
4
On the second day, we will start at 7:00 a.m. to leave all the way long to the famous Laguna Colorada, one of the largest and most impressive lagoons in the place. On the way, we will visit the Chiguana desert on the south side of the Uyuni salt flat, surrounded by volcanoes like Ollagüe (5840m), which is still active and can be seen from the viewpoint.
4 hours • Admission ticket free
5
Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve of Andean Fauna
Later, we will enjoy the Cañapa, the Hedionda, and the Chiarcota lagoons where flamingos can be seen and many other kinds of animals. Finally, on the day, we will enter “Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve” (NATIONAL PARK), visit the Siloli Desert at 4550m (the highest and driest in the world), take a photo next to the “rock tree” (a lava rock formation). ­ Before reaching the final destination, we will stop at the viewpoint next to the Laguna Colorada to see more pink flamingos in their natural habitat and admire this intense red lake. in the end, we will spend the night in a shared family accommodation in Huayllajara.
17 hours • Admission ticket not included
Day 3
THE HOT SPRINGS SURROUNDED BY GEYSERS
1 stop
6
Geiser Sol de la Manana
Weak up early to start around 5:00 a.m. to visit the “Sol de Mañana” Geyser (5,000m) and walk close to fumaroles and steaming craters filled with boiling pots of mud at 160-210 Cº. and then have the chance to take a bath in an open-air Hot Springs at 32 °C water. then the Dali Desert, and the Green Lagoon (toxic copper water at the foot of the big Licancabur volcano at 6000m, a few kilometers from the Bolivia-Chile border). At long last, we return to Uyuni enjoying the beautiful scenery along the way and having lunch at a picnic by the roadside. On the way, we will pass through Rock Valley, the Alota settlement, and the small town of San Cristóbal, where you can see a baroque church and colonial paintings. The return to the city of Uyuni is the end of our expedition around 5:00 pm.
12 hours • Admission ticket not included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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