Uyuni Salt Flat (4 days)

• Price for Uyuni Salt Flat (4 days): US$ 249 per person.

1. Select the departure date from the calendar.
2. Select the number of people.
3. Click on "Add to cart".
4. Pay online an advance deposit of the total price of the program.

• The pending balance must be paid in cash (American dollar) in San Pedro de Atacama before 2:00 pm on the day vefore the tour.
• You can reschedule or cancel the tour (with a full refund) up until 24 hours before it starts.

• Hotel pickup in San Pedro de Atacama.
• Drop off at bus station or downtown San Pedro de Atacama.
• Shared transport (minibus in Chile and 4x4 for six people in Bolivia).
• Spanish-speaking driver.
• All meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
• Basic accommodations:
• 1^st night at a hostel Villamar in a shared double, triple or quadruple room, subject to availability, with a shared bathroom (showers with cold water. You may pay an additional Bs. 10 if you would like hot have hot water).
• 2^nd night at a Colcha K hostel in a shared double, triple, or quadruple room, subject to availability, with a shared bathroom (showers with hot water).
• 3^rd night at a hostel in Villamar in a shared double, triple or quadruple room, subject to availability, with a shared bathroom (showers with cold water. You may pay an additional Bs. 10 if you would like hot have hot water).

• Drop off at the hotel.
• Round trip shuttle between the Calama airport and San Pedro de Atacama.
• Border tax (Bs. 17 per person).
• Entrance fees (Bs. 186 per person).
  • Entrance fee to the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve (Bs. 150 per person).
  • Entrance fee to the Polques Hot Springs (Bs. 6 per person).
  • Entrance fee to Incahuasi Island (Bs. 30 per person).
• Access to bathrooms along the way (approximately Bs. 6 each time).
• Rain boots (needed the event of rain; rental for Bs. 20 per person).
• Health insurance.
• Sleeping bag.
• Water.

• Private room & bathroom for all accommodation's nights:
• 1 person: US$ 99.
• Group of 2 or more people: US$ 49 per person.
• English-speaking driver*:
• 1 person: US$ 150.
• Group of 2 people: US$ 75 per person.
• Group of 3 people: US$ 50 per person.
• Group of 4 people: US$ 38 per person.
• Group of 5 or more people: US$ 30 per person.

*Service available only the first 3 days of the tour. The fourth day is with a Spanish-speaking driver.

• Comfortable and warm clothing.
• Comfortable shoes (ideally for hiking).
• Swimsuit and towel (for Polques Hot Springs).
• Sunglasses.
• Sunscreen.
• Toiletries.
• Toilet paper.
• Flashlight.
• Water (1 liter per person for the first day. You can buy it on the road during the rest of the tour).
• Sleeping bag (see FAQs).
• Towel.
• Passport or ID card. If you are a foreign resident in Chile, you should bring both to present them at customs.
• Between Bs. 350 and Bs. 500 for expenses not included on the tour (entrance fees, taxes, bathroom, water and souvenirs, among others).

• Due to most of this tour is made above 13,000 feet of altitude and in a narrow vehicle, the following people cannot take it:
• Children until the age of 6
• Adults over the age of 65
• People that weigh more than 100 kg
• Pregnant women
• People with high blood pressure, heart failure, asthma or similar.
• Non-resident in Chile Australian passengers must be visiting the country with a multiple tourist visa (it allows readmissions).
• It is mandatory to enter to Bolivia, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to present 2 copies of a vaccination certificate with at least 2 shots, 15 days from the second dose applied.

*If you have doubts about the proceedings to the enter to the country due to the pandemic, you can check the requirements in this website.

Start: Day 1 at 7:00 am at your hotel in San Pedro de Atacama.

End: Day 4 at 1:00 pm in the bus station or downtown San Pedro de Atacama (this end time could be modified due to weather conditions or force majeure reasons, which is why we recommend you leaving San Pedro de Atacama the day after the end date of the tour).

Day 1: We will pick you up at your hotel and travel in a minibus from San Pedro de Atacama to the border of Bolivia, passing by the border-control stations of Chile and Bolivia. Once we reach the border, we will switch to a 4x4 vehicle for 6 people. On this first day, we will visit places in the Bolivian Altiplano such as the Blanca Lagoon and Verde Lagoon located near the Licancabur Volcano. Next, we will visit the Salvador Dalí Desert, the Polques Hot Springs to take a nice dip, and the Sol de Mañana Geysers, intermittent sources of water that flow at a temperature of 90 °C (194 °F). We will end the day at the Colorada Lagoon, a major nesting site for more than 30,000 flamingos. We will stay overnight at the refugio in Villamar.

Day 2: After breakfast, we will take the route to Tomas Lakha, where you will be able to see the cave paintings from before the Incas. After that, we will visit Italia Perdida, place where the volcanic rock is shaped with what happens to be an abandoned city. Then, we will go to Vinto Lagoon and Catal Lagoon, where you will be able to walk and see the typical fauna of the Bolivian Altiplano. Later, we will visit the Anaconda Canyon and also the Sora Canyon, before going to the Chiguana Salt Flat ang getting to Colcha K where you will stay the second night.

Day 3: We will begin our last day of the tour very early in the morning with a view of the sunrise in the Uyuni Salt Flat. After this we will go to the Incahuasi Island, a limestone formation located in the middle of the salt flat where we will be able to explore and get another perspective of the Salt Flat. We will then continue on to the Salt Museum and the town of Colchani, which are outside of the salt flat. From here we will go to Uyuni, passing by the train cemetery, where we will make a short stop to take pictures. In Uyuni, we will say goodbye to our driver/guide who accompanied us during the previous three days, and then we will have some free time to eat lunch and tour part of the city. Then, we will meet up with the driver who will take us on the return trip, with a stop-over in Villamar to eat dinner and sleep.

Day 4: We will get up very early to continue our return trip and get to the border between Chile and Bolivia. Once here, and after the corresponding procedures, we will switch vehicles to a minibus to go back to San Pedro de Atacama.

*The itinerary is subject to changes during September, changing the places visited and/or the accommodation places included, always maintaining the level and conditions of these.

*The pickup service included does not operate to nor from accommodations located outside the urban area of San Pedro de Atacama, accommodations located in ayllus near San Pedro de Atacama (Quitor, Yaye, Checar, Sequitor, Solor, and Coyo), nor accomodations in the town of Toconao.

Altiplano winter

From January to April, a weather phenomenon occurs that is known as the Altiplano winter, which is the rainy season in the central Andes. Due to this, the described itinerary may be modified as follows:

• The places visited on Day 2 are replaced by the following: Italia Perdida, Vinto Lagoon, Anaconda Canyon and Rocas Valley.
• The second night we would stay in a hostel in Uyuni instead of at a hostel in San Juan del Rosario.
• We would not visit the Incahuasi Island because it is located in the middle of the salt flat where we find the largest concentration of water during the rainy season.

Changes due to force majeure

This is a referential itinerary. The route to get to the salt flat, the places visited, the indicated order, and the end time will always be subject to change according to weather conditions, road conditions, unforeseen events, and accommodation availability. The itinerary is confirmed in the briefing given by the supplier the day before the start of the activity. However, the itinerary still could be modified due to the occurrence of the aforementioned situations once the tour has already begun.