San Pedro de Atacama Trip Overview
Enjoy a planned and well organized trip from San Pedro de Atacama Chile, visiting all the attractions of the Andean Fauna Reserve EDUARDO AVAROA and arriving to Uyuni, in private and personalized service, meeting local people, customs of Bolivian life.
Additional Info
Duration: 3 days
Starts: San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Enjoy a planned and well organized trip from San Pedro de Atacama Chile, visiting all the attractions of the Andean Fauna Reserve EDUARDO AVAROA and arriving to Uyuni, in private and personalized service, meeting local people, customs of Bolivian life.
Itinerary
Day 1: San Pedro de Atacama Chile – Reserva Eduardo Avaroa – Polques
Pass By: Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve of Andean Fauna, Bolivia
Pick up is from the Hotel in San Pedro at 06:30 am, for the crossing of the border at Hito Cajones.
Stop At: Laguna Verde, Bolivia
Visit “Laguna Verde”
As soon as we enter Bolivia, a strange scenario opens up, dominated by the Licancabur Volcano and the two-body mirror of the Laguna Verde, one of the treasures of the Eduardo Avaroa Flora and Fauna Reserve and the first point of our expedition in 4X4, unparalleled in the world. We will approach the Laguna Verde, at the foot of the Licancabur Volcano.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Laguna Blanca, Avaroa National Reserve, Uyuni Bolivia
Visit to Laguna Blanca
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Salvador Dali Desert, Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve Bolivia
Visit “Salvador Dali Desert”
As we move away another large extension will open to our front: the Valley of the Ladies of the Desert, followed by the Termas de Polques, where we can take a full-body bath before leaving for the Geysers of Sol de Mañana, a surprising sign of the activity volcanic area.
Stop At: Die Laguna Colorada liegt nicht bei Potosi sondern einige 100 km entfernt, Potosi Bolivia
Visit to “Laguna Colorada”
Continuing through desert areas, the diadem of the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve, the Laguna Colorada, the main nesting center for the three species of flamingos, whose algae activated by solar radiation and wind give both the lagoon and pink color, will open to our eyes. to the legs and part of the plumage of these exotic birds. These fantastic deserts are owners of the entire terracotta palette. Reds, oranges, ochres, bronzes, coffees and beiges follow one another in every curve of the road, fighting the attention of the traveler.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Arbol de Piedra, Uyuni Bolivia
Visit “Arbol de Piedra”
Here we will know the stone tree and in the route we will find the untamed vicuna, auquénido of proud figure, that is seen by small groups.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Aguas Termales de Polques, Next to Cerro Faldajara, Uyuni Bolivia
Visit to Hot Spring
We will continue on our Hostel in Polques, overnight in Private Rooms
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight in Polques Basic Hostel in Private Room
Day 2: Polques – San Juan
Pass By: Aguas Termales de Polques, Next to Cerro Faldajara, Uyuni Bolivia
Today we will continue our trip to the Ramadita, Honda, Chiarkota, Hedionda and Cañapa Lagoons, where a large number of flamingos, of the three species in the area, will be seen and photographed at will. Other birds, such as Andean gulls and ducks, accompany the flamingos in these lagoons flanked by volcanoes, often snowy, that when they descend have a green skirt (straw brave, yareta and thola) to finish in the ocher colors that the winds have been drawing for millennia. , or in the rare colors from the borax and sulfur of these strange lagoons.
Stop At: Geiser Sol de la Manana, Avaroa National Reserve, Uyuni Bolivia
Visit to “Sol de mañana Geyser”
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Laguna Hedionda, Uyuni Bolivia
Visit “Laguna Hedionda” and see the flamingos
We will continue to the Mirador del Ollagüe where we will have our picnic lunch.
To continue with our journey we will start in the 4X4. After about an hour, you will arrive at the abandoned farmhouse of Cuye, where you can see the first view of the Salar. Then we will go to the Komancha canyon in Sinalaco, deep crevice in the rock carved by the bed of a river with flow only in the rainy season. Crossing the canyon for about 90 minutes in a walk that should cover secondary difficulties of level changes, amid the desire of the cameras to recover the stage of high side walls with formations of figures and rocky textures of mysterious beauty.
Overnight at the Salt Hostel in SAN JUAN, which has private bathrooms, hot water (D, A, C).
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight in SALT HOSTEL, San Juan
Day 3: San Juan – Salar de Uyuni – Uyuni
Stop At: Salar de Uyuni, Uyuni Bolivia
Today we will dedicate ourselves to the unknown salt for tourism or Salar Sensual. By the crust of salt we will direct our 4X4 towards Ch’jini, very little visited by the tourism in spite of its beauty without pair.
It is an intimate corner of the Salar Sensual, of incomparable landscape beauty, but also of a spiritual presence that emanates from the stone buildings, more than a thousand years old, that makes us think about the way of life of the populations ancestral.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Isla Incahuasi, Salar De Uyuni, Uyuni Bolivia
Visit to “Incahuasi Island”
Then we will return to the Salar towards its center, the Incahuasi Island, tourist attention center that has an ascension path to its summit that turns into an extraordinary 360 degree viewpoint and that surprises by the amount of giant cactus (Echinopsis atacamensis) that populate the Island, which is also a manifest sample of the petrified volcanic lava-like rock on top of the rocks and that its origin is the “Blue Alga” or Fossil Stromatolites, one of the oldest life testimonies of the earth. The underwater bacteria that formed them have developed in the times of Lake Michín (40 thousand years ago) and Lake Tauka (11 thousand years ago) that kept the whole island under water.
We will continue our journey to the Colchani Salt Mounds, after brief stops at the Hotel de Sal Museum and a water hole. They will be the last stops in the Salar, for the final photographs with the sunset where we will taste national cocoteles and exotic drinks for this event.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Museo de la Llama y la Sal, Ruta 30, Colchani 09700 Bolivia
Visit Colchani Town
Half an hour later we will arrive to Uyuni and we will finish our services with the security of having given them an unforgettable experience in this corner of the world (D, A).
Arrival in Uyuni at 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Joker Expedition, Bolivia, 9999, Uyuni, Bolivia
Dropp-off in Uyuni City
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
