4-Day Guided Adventure Trip from Tupiza to Salar de Uyuni

During the whole morning of the first day, we will visit many attractions that are located in the Lípez area, like Awanapamapa, where you will see a lot of LLamas and other animals. Then you will also visit Ciudad del Encanto, an amazing rocks formation, where you can walk around this place, some people call this place as a piece of the moon on earth.

During the afternoon, we will go to visit an old town of the colonial time, San Antonio de Lipez, known as the ghost town for some tourists. After that we will continue driving until Quetena, where we will stay the first night

During the 2nd day of this trip, we will visit the National Reserve, which include many attractions like Lakuna Kollpa, Laguna Verde, Desierto Dalí, Geysers and Laguna Colorada.

After breakfast, we will cross the Siloli Desert, where the Stone Tree is located, here you will be able to walk around the stones in the desert.

After crossing the Siloli Desert, we will cross a serie of Andean Lagoons like Laguna Honda, Laguna Hedionda and Laguna Cañapa. Laguna Hedionda is the most relevant because you will see a lot of flamingos in the lagoon and very close of its border. Here we will have our lunch

After visiting the serie of lagoons, we will go to the Ollague Volcano view-point, from there you will see the semi-active volcano. Here you will find a lot of volcanic rocks around the area.

This day, we will enter to the salt flat to see the amazing sunset and then we will return to the accommodation

Today we will cross the immense Salar de Uyuni (3650 m.a.s.l.) early in the morning to see the Sunrise in the Uyuni Salt Flat. With 12,000 km2, the Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt plain in the world, stretching away in all directions as far as the eye can see. From here you can see volcano Tunupa impressively overhanging. The salt flats are made up of 11 separate layers with a thickness that ranges from 2 to 10m. The depth of salt is 120 meters and with that it is the biggest reserve of minerals such as lithium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus and borax in the world.

The salt flat has 14 small islands, the most important is the Incahuasi Island. Around the island, you can see Ojos de Agua, these are springs which act as pores for the salt flats. After that, you will have some time to enjoy with the crazy photos in the salt flat.

Leaving the salt bed, we will visit Colchani, the village where the salt is processed. Here there are various salt souvenirs and alpaca or llama wool clothes.

Finally, we will go to see Cementerio de Trenes, where you will see a lot of ancient trains. Then we will go the central part of the city to finish the tour around 1-2pm.