Uyuni Salt Flats Full-Day Trip: Explore Bolivia's Largest Salt Desert with Giant Cacti
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Uyuni
Embark on a thrilling 7-hour adventure to Bolivia's Uyuni Salt Flats, the largest salt desert in the world. Explore stunning landscapes, historical trains, a lost island with giant cacti, and capture mind-bending perspective photos in this ancient land.
Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Train Cemetery - Starting the day at approx. 10:30 am, our guide gives you a short briefing on some recommendation for the tour, and shortly after you’ll hop on a 4x4 drive Toyota Land Cruiser that will firstly take you to the Train Cemetery where a full story of the first trains that arrived in Bolivia, and their purposes will be uncovered.

Soon after the crew takes you to the small village of Colchani, where you could expect many handicraft shops for souvenirs, and also the salt factory, where the salt is being refined and packed for consumption. The lunch takes places in a Salt hotel with plenty of option for any taste.

  • Salar de Uyuni - Head toward the majestic Salar de Uyuni and start the real journey into the biggest salt flat on earth. Your first stop will be next to the only construction allowed in the Salar, which is called Playa Blanca, the first salt hotel build in the salt flat.

Next, a 30mins drive toward the middle of nowhere into a special location to take the best pictures of yourself and your friend by your experienced guide who will tell you how to do everything perfectly.
We’ll then go to the Inca Wasy Island (Cactus Island) where will be able to see giant cacti and rock formations of petrified Coral. A short hike of 40mins. to the top and we’ll reach the highest point of view in the trip with 3750 m.a.s.l (12,303.14 feet) where a 360* view of the hole Salt Flat awaits for you.

After this amazing hike, it will be time for the breathtaking sunset to come, at approx 6pm, and your driver will choose to the best location for it. At the end of our tour we’ll return back to Uyuni at approx 6:30 - 7pm.

What's Included
  • Hotel pickup (selected hotels only)
  • Professional guide
  • All activities
  • Lunch
  • Wine tasting
  • Hotel drop-off
What's Not Included
  • Entrance fees to the park (30bs per person)
Additional Information

Embark on a seven-hour exploration to encounter the world’s largest salt flat. Outstanding landscapes and destinations await you, complemented by a competent team and top-notch equipment for an ideal day excursion. From historical locomotives to an expansive salt desert and a deserted island with enormous cacti, all these sights are yours to behold within the ancient territories of Bolivia. Your local guides will entertain you with tales of the region and assist you in crafting imaginative perspective photographs in a unique spot in the heart of the salty desert.

  • CHECK IN IS AT 10:00 AM
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
  • It is important to understand that the Isla Inca Wasi is NOT available in the rainy season (January until March) unless specified by our company
  • One guide is divided between two cars ( 1 Guide for 12 people max )
  • All cars in the company are equiped with Radios to comunicate between eachother
Location
Avenida Ferroviaria
MAIN STREET FERROVIARIA AVENUE
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Samuel_r
Oct 12, 2023
Incredible tour! Highly recommend! - This was an incredible tour! Our guide was very knowledgable, was able to answer all of our questions, and spoke great English. Highly recommend!
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Travelgal239
Nov 22, 2022
Don't Miss This! - WONDERFUL DAY!!! One of the highlights of my month long visit to Peru and Bolivia! Comfortable vehicle, great guide Carlos made sure we had a blast! Cannot more highly recommend.
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Janettedcp2
Mar 30, 2020
Superb experience - Excellent service from start to end. Really nothing we can complain about; communication was straight forward, the guide was very friendly, the drive & the car war safe and we had a great group. The scenery was undoubtedly the most beautiful I've seen in my life, 5*!
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D3442qtandreass
Mar 1, 2020
Armando from Sol de Mañana, great driver for your trip to the Salar of Uyuni - We did our day excursion to the Salar of Uyuni with the agency Incahuasi. This was a great experience from the first moment until the end. They provided us with a driver called Armando who also works for Sol de Mañana. He did such an amazing job that we would like to write a review also directly for him. He was fully involved and made all efforts to make us happy. He took amazing and funny pictures of us in the Salar. We will thus have super memories and souvenirs of our day in the Salar of Uyuni. Since we heard many bad reviews of drivers who just leave you at some place to get by on your own, it is important to know that there are drivers who take their job really seriously. Thank you very much again Armando for this unforgettable trip and for the great job you did.
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Byron_7
Dec 21, 2019
Full day Salt Flats Tour - Fantastic day visiting the Salt Flats of Uyuni with Lewis and his team from Red Planet Expeditions. The transport was safe, guide Lewis was very knowledgeable (& a fantastic photographer) and we saw all the key sites. Really enjoyed and would recommend highly!
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361benjaminb
Sep 10, 2023
Top! - We paid around €80 per person, via Todo Turismo organized by Bolivia Hop. Very nice tour, you start first with the train cemetery, while chewing a few coca leaves and resin for pep, then explanation of the rituals of the region on the island with the cacti, then some funny photos to finally finish with the sunset over the lake after passing by the Dakar monument, laughter guaranteed with our completely crazy guide 😂 We spoke Spanish with him so it was very easy and if you made the effort, expect a drunken upgrade lol We paid more or less 80€ p.p from La Paz with Todo Turismo organized by Bolivia Hop. You start by train graveyard than cactus island with explanation of theirs culture and llamas sacrifice, than funny pictures and sunset on the salt lake for the reflection pictures. Show your best Spanish for advantage in alcohol! Have fun
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Cavanclarky
Feb 14, 2020
Salt flats - Very good value for money tour. Driver ( Victor)very knowledgeable and helpful. Guide quite inexperienced but thanks to Victor had a fab time.
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Esther
Feb 12, 2020
What an Amazing Place - First I would like to say that the Uyuni Salt Flats are incredible. A must-see if you are in Bolivia or a neighboring country. Our drivers with Red Planet were good and spoke English. They spent time with us taking pictures and videos and found us some good spots. The lunch was average. The one thing I would change is how much time we spent for lunch/shopping. Other than that it was a great experience.
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Ruth_d
Jul 17, 2022
Tour not 100% as Expected - I purposefully searched for a high rated company through which to book this tour, because i wanted the experience to be as smooth and comfortable as possible. There was a lot of waiting about in the office, and some confusion at the start of the day, while various different trips and transport were organised. I specifically asked for the trip to be in Spanish since my partner does not speak English, but it was all in English delivered by the driver of the other vehicle. Our driver did speak Spanish but hardly said a word because the other passengers were English speaking. After the train graveyard, we were taken to get welly boots which we would need for the location of the sunset. It was a free for all, and the closest we could get to our correct sizes (each of us take a size 40) were sized 37 and 44 boots. For the money I spent, I would've expected to have been asked beforehand what shoesizes we are. Obviously this made watching the sunset not as comfortable and perfect as we were expecting. The drive was smooth and it was nice to chat to the others in the group. The salt hotel was nice and lunch very tasty. Cactus Island was extraordinary, but as at train graveyard, the guide just disappeared and offered no explanation as to how the island formed, etc. Other groups had a guide with them going round the island explaining the archaeology. The highlight was the stop for funny photos and videos. The guide was a real expert and gave us a lot of help taking funny perspective shots and directed a hilarious video with all of us in it. We got back to Uyuni at the expected time, and it was a great experience overall. As said, my only disappointments were: - not in Spanish - ill- fitting boots - no background information on graveyard cemetery / cactus island / or indeed the salt flats themselves
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Katel1758
Dec 16, 2019
Do not book with them - Don’t book with these guys. Never felt so unsafe in my life. Drinking on the job. Nearly crashing. The driver didn’t speak English and stunk of booze. It’s so so expensive for what it is. Pretty boring tour. They dump you at a island of cactuses for longer time you take pictures and the food is disgusting. Luke warm and rubbery which sits in the back of the Jeep for hours. Avoid at all costs. Not worth the money, go with a cheaper company. These guys are too big for their boots.
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