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Uyuni Salt Flats Basic + Reserve & Lagoons And Transfer To Hito Cajon (Uyuni Hotel & Rustic Lodge) Jan-Dec

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DUEC3BRU UYUNI SALT FLATS BASIC + RESERVE & LAGOONS AND TRANSFER TO HITO CAJON (Uyuni hotel & rustic lodge) JAN-DEC 3 Days / 2 Nights

DAY 1: Hotel or Airport / Colchani Village / Polygons and Eyes of salt / Incahuasi Island / Sunset in the Salt Flats / Hotel (Uyuni)
DAY 2: Hotel (Uyuni) / Train Cemetery / Authentic Towns / Rock Valley / Volcano Ollague Viewpoint / Small Lagoons / Rustic Lodge
DAY 3: Rustic Lodge / Siloli Desert / Stone Tree / Red Lagoon / Sol de Mañana Geysers / Polques Hot Springs / Green Lagoon / Hito Cajon

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Day 1: Pick up from hotel (Uyuni or Colchani) or airport and departure to the Train Cemetery, an abandoned railway complex from the 19th century. Continue visiting the Colchani village, a small local center of salt factories where handcrafted process is possible to observe. Drive into the Uyuni Salt Flats, the largest and highest in the world. It resembles an impressive, overwhelming and solitary white ocean in which below the surface is largely saturated by water creating the eyes of salt, interesting underground water exits; the salt polygons, geometric shapes on the surface and the salt mounds, signs of the daily mineral extraction. Picnic lunch in the middle of the salt flats. Continuing onward, visit to the largest island in this ecosystem, Incahuasi, populated with giant cacti species that measures up to 40 feet in height, providing impressive contrast and panorama of the place. At the end of the day, watch the sunset immersed in a horizon of amazing and ethereal colors. Transfer to the hotel in Uyuni town.

Day 2: Breakfast and start the journey to the Authentic Towns of Lipez: San Cristobal, known for be a mine center village from the colony age; Culpina K, iconic region of the cultivation of the golden grain of royal quinoa. After that you visit the awesome Rock Valley, stones with more than 8 meters high forming a natural sculpture in the middle of the imposing high plateau, next visit to the Ollague Volcano Viewpoint to contemplate a dark stone and very particular volcanic rocks in a totally desert landscape. Lunch picnic on route. Once in the region, you will visit the Smalls Lagoons or Andean Jewels, a set of lagoons characterized by each being particular to the other in its color, smell and chemical compounds that make them so particular within this biodiversity. Transfer to the rustic lodge.

Day 3: 

Breakfast and departure to the Siloli Desert, one of the driest deserts in the world characterized by having rock formations in the middle of the changing dunes is the gateway to the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve, the most visited national park in Bolivia. Continuing with the journey, you visit the Stone Tree, a natural sculpture sculpted by wind erosion over thousands of years. The next attraction is the particular Red Lagoon, unique for its abundance of algae and plankton, which give it its color and have it populated with flamingos, including the James flamingo that was thought to be extinct. Then you will arrive at the “Sol de Mañana” geysers, nice fumaroles over a geothermal area that extend for more than 10 square kilometers, very close to these you will reach the Polques Hot Springs, which are also a product of the volcanic activity of the region, high in medicinal minerals. As the last attraction of the tour, you will visit the Green Lagoon, a small iconic lagoon that tends to have a very emerald color due to the microorganisms that compose it; being the natural boundary between Bolivia and Chile, from there you can observe the Licancabur volcano, at the end of this visit transfer to Hito Cajon border.

INCLUDED: Private transport (4 pax por vehicle), bilingual guide assistance (English – Spanish), meals mentioned in the program, accommodation in 3* hotel in Uyuni town & rustic lodge in Ojo de Perdiz and entrance fees.

NOT INCLUDED: Dinners, tips and personal expenses.

  • Rainy Season: from January to April. Due to the flooding, vehicles will reach the safest places and Incahuasi Island. Sometimes, this happens in May too.
  • For Carnival, Christmas and New Year Holidays, prices will be increased.
  • Guided in French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese and other languages ​​have an additional price.

 

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