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Private Uyuni Salt Flats Journey from San Pedro de Atacama

By Joker Expedition, Bolivia.
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $4,146 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 3d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Enjoy a thoughtfully crafted and flawlessly executed journey from San Pedro de Atacama, designed to immerse you in one of the most extraordinary regions on Earth.

Travel across the breathtaking landscapes of the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Reserve, where colourful lagoons, high-altitude deserts, geysers, and unique wildlife create a constantly evolving and unforgettable scenery, before reaching the vast white expanse of Uyuni.

This is not just a journey — it is a fully private and personalised experience, curated to match your rhythm and expectations. Along the way, you will connect with the authentic spirit of the Altiplano, discovering local communities, traditions, and the quiet beauty of Bolivian life, far from the ordinary.

Every detail is carefully designed to ensure comfort, exclusivity, and a deep sense of place — transforming your trip into a truly meaningful and memorable experience.

Activity location

  • Laguna Blanca
    • Avaroa National Reserve
    • Uyuni, Bolivia, Bolivia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Laguna Blanca
    • Avaroa National Reserve
    • Uyuni, Bolivia, Bolivia

Check availability

From Atacama to Uyuni Private
  • Activity duration is 3 days3d
    3d
  • English

Tayka hotel, Luna Salada Hotel
Private
Duration: 3 days
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Private car 4x4
Pickup included

Starting time: 7:30 A.M.
Price details
CA $4,104.56 x 1 AdultCA $4,104.56
Paid at activityCA $41.07
Total
Price is CA $4,145.63

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Food and drinks (3 Breakfast, 3 Lunch, 2 Dinner)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Private transport
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bilingual Professional Guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    2 nights accommodation in TAYKA hotels.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Hotel pick up and drop off.
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Laguna Verde

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Day 1: San Pedro, Chile - Gren Lagoon - Desert of Dali - Desierto Siloli

  • 5 stops
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Overnight in HOTEL TAYKA DESIERTO or Similar

Laguna Verde

  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Your journey begins with an early morning pick-up from your hotel in San Pedro de Atacama at 06:30 am, heading towards the Hito Cajones border crossing. As you enter Bolivia, the landscape transforms dramatically into a surreal high-altitude desert. Dominating the horizon is the majestic Licancabur Volcano, reflected in the striking emerald waters of Laguna Verde — one of the most iconic treasures of the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Reserve. This marks the beginning of your private 4x4 expedition, as you approach Laguna Verde at the foot of the volcano, surrounded by one of the most unique and otherworldly landscapes on the planet.

Laguna Blanca

Visit "Laguna Blanca" White Lagoon

Salvador Dali Desert

Photo stop

Aguas Termales de Polques

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Visit to Polques Hot Springs Enjoy a relaxing stop at the Polques Hot Springs, where you will have the opportunity to soak in naturally warm, mineral-rich waters surrounded by the stunning landscapes of the high-altitude desert — a perfect moment to unwind and connect with the serenity of the Altiplano.

Geiser Sol de la Manana

  • 30m
Visit , Geiser Sol de Mañana We will continue on our way to Ojo de Perdiz where the Hotel Tayka del Desierto receives the traveller with private bathrooms, hot water and heating (Bx, C).

Day 2: Desierto Siloli - Tahua

  • 3 stops
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Overnight in SALT HOTEL **** TAYKA DE SAL or Similar

Siloli Desert

  • 2h
Today we will continue our trip to the Ramadita, Honda, Chiarkota, Hedionda and Cañapa Lagoons, where a large number of flamingos, of the three species in the area, will be seen and photographed at will. Other birds, such as Andean gulls and ducks, accompany the flamingos in these lagoons flanked by volcanoes, often snowy, that when they descend have a green skirt (straw brave, yareta and thola) to finish in the ocher colours that the winds have been drawing for millennia. , or in the rare colours from the borax and sulphur of these strange lagoons.

Laguna Hedionda

  • 30m
Visit "Laguna Hedionda" We will continue to the Mirador del Ollagüe where we will have our picnic lunch. To continue with our journey we will start in the 4X4. After about an hour, you will arrive at the abandoned farmhouse of Cuye, where you can see the first view of the Salar. Then we will go to the Komancha canyon in Sinalaco, deep crevice in the rock carved by the bed of a river with flow only in the rainy season. Crossing the canyon for about 90 minutes in a walk that should cover secondary difficulties of level changes, amid the desire of the cameras to recover the stage of high side walls with formations of figures and rocky textures of mysterious beauty.

Tahua

  • 8h
After a journey of approximately 2 hours we reached the shores of the Salar de Uyuni at the foot of Volcan Tunupa. Overnight at the Salt Hotel of the Tayka Network, which has private bathrooms, hot water and environmental heating (D, A, C).

Day 3: Tahua - Salar de Uyuni - Uyuni

  • 4 stops
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Not included

Tunupa Volcano

  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Today we will dedicate ourselves to the unknown salt for tourism or Salar Sensual. By the crust of salt we will direct our 4X4 towards Ch'jini, very little visited by the tourism in spite of its beauty without pair. From here we will continue through the salt crust and we will direct our 4X4 towards Coquesa, to the north, from where the ascent will start in 4x4 to gain an appreciable height in the Thunupa, from where the views of the Monumental Salt Flat are impressive. Start of a short walk to see the chullpar, cave with ancient burials, in which a local guide will explain the history of the mummies. On our way to the hotel we will visit the Chantani Museum, with its sample of ceramics, whimsical stone forms that resemble animals and their silent mummies that refer to the ancient burials in these lands.

Salar de Uyuni

  • 4h
Visit Salar de Uyuni

Isla Incahuasi

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Visit Incahuasi Island. Then we will return to the Salar towards its centre, the Incahuasi Island, tourist attention centre that has an ascension path to its summit that turns into an extraordinary 360 degree viewpoint and that surprises by the amount of giant cactus (Echinopsis atacamensis) that populate the Island, which is also a manifest sample of the petrified volcanic lava-like rock on top of the rocks and that its origin is the "Blue Alga" or Fossil Stromatolites, one of the oldest life testimonies of the earth. The underwater bacteria that formed them have developed in the times of Lake Michín (40 thousand years ago) and Lake Tauka (11 thousand years ago) that kept the whole island under water. We will continue our journey to the Colchani Salt Mounds, after brief stops at the Hotel de Sal Museum and a water hole. They will be the last stops in the Salar, for the final photographs with the sunset where we will taste national coctels and exotic drinks for this event.

Joker Expedition, Bolivia

Half an hour later we will arrive to Uyuni and we will finish our services with the security of having given them an unforgettable experience in this corner of the world (D, A). Arrival in Uyuni at 7:00 p.m.

Location

Activity location

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    Laguna Blanca
    • Avaroa National Reserve
    • Uyuni, Bolivia, Bolivia

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Laguna Blanca
    • Avaroa National Reserve
    • Uyuni, Bolivia, Bolivia

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