Bolivia - Salar de Uyuni

Day 1.

After a morning pick up from your hotel in Uyuni, and the short visit to the train graveyard, which is essentially an open air museum, you will drive to Colchani, a small community of families dedicated to extracting salt. Then after a fast a smooth eighty kilometer drive across this great white desert we will reach the Isla Pescado (fish island, see above). You can climb to the top of the island for a 360 degree view of a huge expanse of hexagonal white salt tiles and in the distance the Thunupa volcano. The view is amazing.

 After lunch you continue South, guided only by the ring of mountains, until you arrive in the small town of San Juan where you will spend the night in simple and basic accommodation

Day 2.

After breakfast and continue by jeep to the South to the Eduardo Avaroa National Park, one of the most isolated regions of Bolivia with lagoons, volcanoes and unusual topography. Later we will arrive at the Laguna Colorada, a red lake with mineral deposits on its shores. The red color lake is beautiful and an ideal habitat for the pink flamingo. The night will be spent in basic and simple hostels.

Day 3.

An early start today for the drive to Sol de Mañana at 4850 meters over the sea level, the highest point of our trip where a geyser bursts upwards producing sulfurous air.

Continuing past high mountains you arrive at some natural hot springs into which you may jump and enjoy a breakfast. Later you will continue the drive to Laguna Verde, in this magical lagoon the wind stirs up minerals and the sun makes the lake change to a green shade. We also visit the Dali Valley en route where there are surreal rock formations (see below).