La Paz – Flat salt of the Uyuni full day

About this tour

Before 1 day of your Salt flats tour at 08:30 p.m. Pick you up from your hotel in La Paz (downtown at 09:00 p.m. Departure Bus La Paz –Uyuni- Arrival 05:00 a.m. our local operator and / or partner will make pick you up from the bus station in Uyuni, and give detailed information of the tour. Breakfast (off one’s own bat).

Our adventure begins at 10:30 AM, first visit the train cemetery where you can see the old rusting trains from decades ago and “Salar de Uyuni”. After this we process to Colchani and witness how the salt is processed before we arrive to the Salt Flats themselves and see the “Ojos de Sal” where water bubbles up through the salt plains.

We will see where the salt has been laced in mounds ready to be transported, the original salt hotel (no longer used for guests) and visit Inca Huasi (Fish Island) to see the giant cacti , some more than 1000 years!

We stop here for lunch and have great views of the salt flats all around (please take into account that the island is not reachable when the salt flats are flooded). There will be plenty of time for taking amazing photos and taking in the amazing place that is the Salt Flats themselves.

In the afternoon the tour continues through the salar to reach the isolated area Atulcha, which is also like a large island where there is a small hotel known for having been built with blocks of salt and some furniture are also salt. After moves on we will start heading back towards Uyuni, arriving at around 06:30 p.m.

At 08.00 p.m. presentation at bus station in Uyuni.