Day 1: Salar de Uyuni
Duration: 2 Days
Distance: 290km/ 180miles
Elevation: 3.600m (11,800 ) – 5320m (17,450 )
Difficulty: Easy – Medium
Type: 4WD expedition
Route to Salt Flats! We start the day picking you up at the bus station (6a.m. for breakfast), at the airport (9:30 a.m.) or at your hotel between 10:00 a.m. and 10: 15 a.m., on our way to our office and make all the travel records.
Our day will consist of an expedition in 4WD for the most important nearby attractions of Uyuni. We will start visiting the Uyuni Train Cemetery, an amazing place that narrates in each wagon the history of the mining era of South America. After a time to take pictures we will move to the community of Colchani, a desolate place ideal to buy souvenirs first quality made by salt, we can also observe the manual manufacture of salt products. Our next stop will be the eyes and salt crystals where we will observe the formation of the Salar de Uyuni. At mid-day we will visit the statue of the Dakar. Lunch will be in a ex salt hotel-museum called Playa Blanca where we will enjoy a variety of traditional food or similar. we will enjoy the sunset. Arriving in Coqueza. (Dinner included)
* Coqueza Basic Salt Hostel (or similar)