CLASSIC UYUNI SALT FLAT
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Duration - 12 hours
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Guide optionsEnglish
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Cancellation PolicyStandard
Overview
Experience the surreal beauty of our planet in one of the most amazing natural landscapes in South America, capture unique moments creating fun scenes within the white salt flat, where everything is put into perspective and the enormity of the scene highlights the fragility of everything
Highlights
- Uyuni Salt Flat
- Train cemetery
- Hotel mede of salt
- Colchani
- Salt eyes
- Salt pyramids
- Incahuasi Island
Description
CLASSIC UYUNI SALT FLAT
Experience the surreal beauty of our planet in one of the most amazing natural landscapes of South America, capture unique moments by creating fun scenes within the white salt flat, where all things are put into perspective and the enormity of the scene highlights the fragility of everything else, the beauty white creates stunning landscapes, time gets dark and reality seems more like a dream, share and learn about the local life of local families while enjoy this amazing place.
What's included
- Inclusions:
- Pick up from your hotel
- Transportation vehicles 4×4, capacity for 5 persons
- Bilingual guide
- Entrance ticket to Uyuni salt flat, Incahuasi island, community museums
- 1 meal (picnic & box lunch)
- Water boots
- First aid kit.
- Exclusions:
- Food, except as mentioned
- Air flights
- Extra expenses (such as tips or others).
- Travel insurance
Itinerary
- Visited Places:
- Salt Flats
- Isla Incahuasi
- Hotel de sal
➢ Departure: Uyuni city at approximately 10:30 hours.
➢ Trains cemetery: They are remains of the locomotives of the ninth century and the beginning of the twentieth century are a must-see attraction in the visit to Uyuni, place to take artistic photographs. These locomotives are of German and English industry and were used to extract the ore from Cerro Rico of Potosí.
➢ Colchani: It is a town located 23 km., North of the city of Uyuni, families are engaged in the extraction and processing of salt with rustic instruments and traditional tools, here we will visit a museum of the salt production process, where You can appreciate the art in salt.
➢ Salt eyes: They are small holes in the surface of the salt and have a special feature, they are born from the union of groundwater: fresh and salt, which cause a chemical reaction and produces the effect of boiling water.
➢ Salt pyramids: The community of Colchani, use rustic tools such as shovel and pillory to perform the work of piling up the salt, which is the first stage of drying; It is then transported in old trucks to the town of Colchani for processing.
➢ Hotel made of salt: We will go to the blinding whiteness of the salt flat 15 minutes from Colchani, we will stop to visit the Hotel de Sal and appreciate its interesting architecture.
➢ Lunch: Outdoor picnic surrounded by the immensity of the salt flat.
➢ Instagram moment: Take singular photos in the extensive whiteness of the salt flat.
➢ Incahuasi island: The high island, formed by volcanic rock, becomes an extraordinary viewpoint of the white salt plain, it is also home to huge ancient cacti as well as an isolated colony of vizcachas and hummingbirds.
➢ Return: Arrival to Uyuni city between 19:30 to 20:00 hours approximately.
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