Uyuni salt flats tour in Bolivia

You’ll have never seen colours like it: the unique Uyuni Salt Flats are a photographer’s dream. Spend three days touring the area’s amazing desert, rock and salt landscapes – soaking up amazing views lit by sunrises and sunsets, and soaking in hot springs along the way too.
Uyuni Altiplano Lagoons Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve Laguna Colorada Laguna Verde Andean wildlife: llamas, alpacas, flamingos hike Isla Pescado travel by 4x4 in a small group
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US $416 excluding flights
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Duration
3 Days
Type
Small group
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Description of Uyuni salt flats tour in Bolivia

Experience one of South America’s most extraordinary landscapes on this three-day Uyuni salt flats tour in Bolivia. Travelling in a small group, you’ll explore vast, high-altitude terrain where brilliant white salt pans stretch to the horizon broken by cacti-covered islands and colourful lagoons.

The itinerary begins in Uyuni, heading first onto the salt flats themselves, where you’ll have time to absorb the scale and unique beauty of this immense landscape. Over the following days, journeys by 4x4 take you deeper into the surrounding Andean desert.

Our tour is developed with Bolivia specialists with more than 30 years’ experience, who have supported families in this region with employment for years. Group sizes are kept small to minimise impact. Accommodation often uses solar energy and responsible waste management systems.

This short but unforgettable journey offers an inspiring combination of natural beauty and wildlife in Bolivia’s most iconic landscape.

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Bolivia
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Wildlife
The perfect introduction to getting your head around the extraordinary life on earth, and where to go to find it.

Responsible Travel

As the pioneers of responsible tourism, we've screened this (and every) holiday so that you can travel knowing we've worked to maximise the benefits of your holiday to local people and places, and minimise any negative impacts.

Planet

Carbon reduction
Our tours visit important sites dedicated to the conservation of nature and indigenous territories. Transport to visit the Uyuni Salt Flat and Avaroa Reserve for this tour is shared. We use we use medium-sized 4x4 vehicles for these 3 day-2 night.
To avoid further impacts, we recommend our tourist to travel without leaving foot marks, especially when visiting Isla Incahuasi (walking among giant catus), visiting Laguna Colorada and Laguna Verde, and when observing Andean wildlife such as vicuñas, llamas, alpacas, and the suri or Andean rhea.

Environment and wildlife
Most of the hostels use solar panels to pump water and generate electricity, and natural gas is used for kitchen and hot showers. Solid waste is collected and subsequently removed from Salt Lake and Avaroa Reserve.
In our tours, wildlife and wilderness come first. No touching, disturbing or feeding wild animals to facilitate photography or at any time. The fundamental concept of tourism services is that visitors should observe wildlife in its element, which results in a true genuine experience when visiting pristine nature in a more respectful manner and respecting the fragile ecology.

Our tours do not visit sites that are still refuges for species highly threatened by extinction like in some locations in Lake Titicaca. Even more to ensure any negative impact of visitation, our groups are usually less than 10 people, and no more than 12.
In the Uyuni Salt Flat, for transportation, we use vehicles for 4 to 5 people to avoid impacting in the incredibly beautiful landscape of this unique nature attraction.

People

Local economy
Our tours take travelers to three of the top and most iconic destinations in Bolivia like Lake Titicaca, Madidi National Park and the Uyuni Salt Flat, where tourism is the most important and sustainable economy all year round. As tour operators we are committed with the sound touristic development of these regions.

Employment, inclusivity and diversity
Our guides and drivers are natives who live in Uyuni or surrounding areas. Supporting local families is our business commitment towards economic and social sustainability, made possible through responsible tourism. The female workforce is important in operations in hotels or lodges and services in all destinations we travel, therefore, we are also committed to fully support this.
In Uyuni area, for more than two decades we have been generating employment opportunities for 10 heads of households, including men, women, and young people from the whole area of Uyuni, which most of them are Quechua speakers. The impact of employment benefits a minimum of 30 people. Our tours involve community members include routines that promote education and cultural exchange. These communities, have unique traditions and are threatened by cultural extinction. We consider that tourism is perhaps the best alternative for the long-term cultural and economic survival of these communities.

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