"UYUNI SALT FLATS" TOUR

"Uyuni Salt Flats" Tour

The Uyuni Salt Flats is one of the main tourist destinations in Bolivia since it is visited by approximately 60 000 tourists every year. In 2019 it was awarded by the World Travel Awards as the "Best Natural Tourist Attraction in South America".
One of its main attractions occurs in the month of November when it becomes the breeding place of three species of flamingos. Giant cactus up to 10 m high are found on Fish Island. This island is the largest of the group of islets located in the center of the Uyuni Salt Flats. It is also a tourist center within the salt flat. On the shores of the salt flat there are several hotels built with blocks of salt, a characteristic that places them among the most extravagant hotels in the world. At present, the economic activities of this population are linked to agriculture, tourism, and mainly the exploitation of salt for industrialization, commercialization and handicrafts. In the last few years work has begun on the process of applying for the Uyuni Salt Flats as a World Heritage Site.

Itinerary

-Customers are picked up in 4x4 jeeps at the Uyuni bus terminal.

• Visit to the Train Cemetery where the remains of old trains await us. Back in 1899, these trains used to circulate with their wagons loaded with silver from the Huanchaca mines. Vestiges of the development of a place that once lived pending the whistle that announced the arrival of these machines. This cemetery is a place of impressive visual beauty in the highlands of Bolivia. Among rusty irons a door to the past is opened, a time of flourishing development of the mining industry. -We continue to the Salt Museum, a space where different structures and animals made with salt can be appreciated. It also has an auditorium equipped for audiovisual reproductions.
• Short break for lunch.
• We will resume our tour during which we will be able to observe Lots of Salt, which is none other than the place where the inhabitants of the town work in the collection of salt which is then transported in trucks.
• Once we have visited the salt piles, we return to the 4x4 to continue our journey through the extensive white plain. This time we will visit the so-called Eyes of Salar, holes through which the subway water comes to the surface. It looks like boiling water, but in reality, it is cold.
• Then we will go to the Incahuasi Island. It is a desert island with a steep orography where we can find a great amount of giant cactus that can reach more than 10m high.
• At the end we return to Uyuni

Includes

• Private jeep 4x4 transportation
• Lunch
• Driver guide in Spanish and English. If you want a guide in another language, it is done by request and an extra charge must be paid.

Not Includes

• Tips
• Extra expenses
• Entrance fee to the atractives
• Transportation from La Paz to Uyuni and back. It is done by request and an extra charge must be paid.