Uyuni Salt Lake tour in Bolivia

Environment
Our operations are careful with the environment and the resident wildlife of the fragile landscape of the Altiplano. You will be spending nights in hotels built by local Quechua communities, built with traditional style and equipped with solar panels and gas. Hotels recycle organic and solid waste, and waste water.

All trips and lodges in our tours in Bolivia and Peru are located in remote locations in the high Andes or hidden rainforest or savannahs, where the value of biodiversity conservation, efforts in saving water and energy are highly precious. Trip routines will explore amazing places respecting wildlife and local people and environmental policies. Lodges were built using local materials, based on traditional architecture that resulted low-impact or non-invasive with spectacular pristine ecosystems or biodiversity rich environments, both home of many threatened charismatic wild flora and fauna. Operations run by trained locals are using alternative energy sources and have implemented garbage, solid, and water waste management to greatly reduce and mitigate undesirable pollution effects. We are committed not to sell tours that represent a threat to nature preserves, historical and cultural destinations we invite travellers to visit.

Community
The hotel network was implemented considering the fragility and uniqueness of the Altiplano landscape and also to support local communities that belong to one of the poorest regions in Bolivia for agriculture and livestock. For them tourism has become a major economy for the region and also important to sustain the spectacular Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Reserve, the most visited place in Bolivia by international travellers.

My husband David and I are tourism and conservation consultants with more than 20 yrs of experience in selling eco-tours, and have been involved in building local capacities and the making of tourism projects neighboring nature preserves or buffer zones. In Bolivia, our small company have been the most important factor for the success of the famed and awarded Chalalan Ecolodge, property of Quechua-Tacana people, also known as a model in rainforest tourism in South America. Since this lodge started in 1998, we have been responsible for selling 80-65% of the arrivals to this rainforest lodge nested in Madidi National Park. Profits are helping the development of 500 families dedicated to low-yielding agriculture and subsistence. Presently, we continue our work as consultants and instructors for conservation projects implementing nature tourism as an alternative to save fine ecosystems and local cultures in Bolivia and Peru.