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3-Day Tour to Salt Flats and Lagoons

By RED PLANET EXPEDITION
8.8 out of 10
Excellent
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $413 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Enjoy the world’s largest salt flat with the safest and best operator in Bolivia.
Best rated tour, with an English-fluent guide assisting you the whole trip.

All groups travel in comfortable Toyota 4x4s with experienced drivers.
Including Satellite phone, Oxygen bottle and sleeping bag.

Take an unforgettable 3-day tour through the vast white Salt flats of Uyuni, into the desert of southwest Bolivia, one of the highest and driest in the world.
Visit tiny villages lost in the tundra surrounded by multicoloured mountain and lakes filled with flamingos, the Sol de Manana geyser, thermal hot-springs at night to finish the day, with temperatures around 38°C (100°F) and enjoying the star gazing and milky way.
You can finish your tour at San Pedro de Atacama for an extra $10 USD if specified !

Activity location

  • Train Cemetery
    • Uyuni, Bolivia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Red Planet Expeditions
    • Avenida Ferroviaria
    • Uyuni, Departamento de Potosí, Bolivia

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3-Day Tour to Salt Flats and Lagoons
  • Activity duration is 3 days3d
    3d
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 11:00 a.m.
Price details
CA $412.91 x 2 AdultsCA $825.82
Total
Price is CA $825.82

What's included, what's not

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    2 nights accommodation
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    Professional guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Afternoon tea
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    Hotel pickup
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    Professional photographer guide
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    Fuel surcharge
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Entrance fees (30 bs for the Inca wasi island and 150 bs for the nacional park)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Know before you book

  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
  • Please dress appropriately for the weather conditions ( Mostly Cold temperatures)
  • One guide is divided between two cars ( 1 Guide for 12 people max )
  • All cars in the company are equiped with Radios to comunicate between eachother

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Beginning of the Experience
  • 3 stops
  • Meals: lunch, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accommodation at Playa Blanca Salt Hotel
Train Cemetery
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
From our office we will be leaving at 11:00 am. in a Toyota land cruiser. We will head towards the first stop "The train’s graveyard" and see the first locomotives in Bolivia. Afterwards you go to the small village of Colchani visiting the factories and the handy-craft market.
Salar de Uyuni
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket not included
Finishing your lunch in the village of Colchani, you will be taken to the great Salar de Uyuni to go straight to a hotel made out of salt. Playa Blanca (the only hotel allowed inside the salt flats) surrounded by salt sculptures, flags and the Dakar Statue. Moving on towards the centre of the salt flats you will fully enjoy the vastness of the landscapes and have a photo session of funny perspective pictures with the tour guide who's got plenty of experience in this field of photography.
Necropolis & Museum Kawsay Wasy
  • 4h
  • Admission ticket not included
Hike in the Inca Wasy island (Cactus Island). Awaits for you after that, where you see the giant cacti and coral Rock formations. The hike itself is a loop of approximately 1h and will take you all the way to the top where a great 360* view can be appreciated. Once you finish this little hike, west will be your next direction to the small Village of Villa Candelaria to spend the first night but just before your leave the salt flat a breathtaking Sun-Set will be seen at its very shore. Arriving to the accommodation, you will enjoy some hot coffee and chocolate with some cookies and snacks. At tea time you will enjoy a delicious dinner.
Day 2: Laguna Colorada
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accommodation at Playa Blanca Salt Hotel
Laguna Colorada
  • 10h
Waking up at 6:30 am, your journey into the hightest and driest desert will be filled with breathtaking landscapes of dormant volcanos and lagoons colouring the vast andean desert of Bolivia. Different Flor and Fauna are on the menu like Llamas,Vicunas, Viszcachas, Andean Foxes and of course Flamingos ! Those animals will be most commonly seen in the national park Eduardo Avaroa which is 720000 hectares big, and where the Laguna Colorada awaits for you, one of the highlights of the entire tour ! Last but not least, we drive you into a volcanic crater where you can see some geological activities. Afterwards the hotel and hot springs awaits for you
Day 3: Final Day
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast
  • Accommodation: Not included
Salvador Dali Desert
  • 7h
  • Admission ticket included
This day starts around 6:30 am. taking a good breakfast (some pancakes, yoghurt, milk, corn flakes etc) to get energy for the last day of this trip. Starting by visiting first the Salvador Dali Desert and then followed by the Green Lake right next to the border of Chile where you can be dropped off at the immigration office. If you wanna come back to Uyuni, North would be your course crossing back threw stunning landscapes from a different road and making some stops in the way for legs stretching, toilets, and lunch. 17:00 pm Approx arrival in Uyuni at our office.

Location

Activity location

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    Train Cemetery
    • Uyuni, Bolivia

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Red Planet Expeditions
    • Avenida Ferroviaria
    • Uyuni, Departamento de Potosí, Bolivia

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