NUESTROS SERVICIOS - TRANS OMAR. ¿Saco para el Salar de Uyuni? - América Latina - LonelyPlanet - Foro. Salar de Uyuni travel guide. This article is an itinerary. Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, located in Bolivia. Photographers flock here to capture the unique landscape. It is often visited as part of a 3 or 4 day tour of South West Bolivia, described below. [edit] Understand [edit] Salar de Uyuni Background Salar de Uyuni comprises over 10,000 sq km in the Potosi region. The standard tour heads south toward the southwest corner of Bolivia, by many fluorescent-colored lakes that are created from a collection of different minerals from runoff from the surrounding mountains.
[edit] Tour Background Salt Construction This article outlines the "standard" tour. Accommodation is usually provided in basic refuges and the weather can be very cold, but it is well worth it for the amazing scenery. [edit] Prepare Flamingoes at Laguna Hedionda [edit] What to Bring Flashlight (torch) - the lights go out when the generator runs dry. [edit] Get In The main starting point of tours to the Salar de Uyuni is Uyuni. Salar de Uyuni tour - Lonely Planet travel forum. Hi! We did the 3-day tour in November 2012. In response to your questions: (1) You do not need to book in advance. We booked the day before (in the afternoon) and had no trouble. Although I should say that we were 6 people, which made up a complete jeep. It may be different if you're just 1 or 2 people. (2) We went with Andrea Tours from Uyuni, off the main plaza, which was great.
. (3) When we were doing research we saw a lot of recommendations to go from Tupiza. . (4) Uyuni is not a particularly interesting town. If you want more detail go to this page . Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats: Bolivia in a nutshell | My Year In Flux. Traveling the Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia is, at times, a bruising, spartan experience; but the 3-4 day jeep tour (which has become Bolivia’s number 1 tourist attraction) also exposes you to breathtaking sights, as natural wonder after natural wonder drifts past the window of your dusty, uncomfortable jeep. This pleasure-pain combination would be an odd dichotomy, were it not a perfect reflection of Bolivia itself. I’ve spent a month travelling through Bolivia, journeying from the shimmering heights of Lake Titicaca and cosmopolitan La Paz to the steamy Amazonian depths of jungle suburbs Rurrenabaque and Reyes.
I’ve jetted over the Cordilleras to bustling Cochabamba, and seen both halves of the colonial legacy, walking the pristine streets of Sucre before visiting the silver mining town of Potosi, where thousands lost their lives to bankroll the Spanish empire (and hundreds more still work in disgusting conditions today). Tupiza trumps Uyuni Basics only. Salar de Uyuni Lagunas: VIAJE COCHABAMBA-ORURO-UYUNI. Compramos anticipadamente en Cochabamba el pasaje de Oruro – Uyuni para la combinación del tren Expreso del Sur clase ejecutiva que sale de Oruro el día Martes 14 a hrs.15:30 ( 7 hrs. de viaje), ese mismo día a hrs. 9:00 tomamos el bus de Cochabamba a Oruro. ( 4 hrs. de viaje).El tramo Oruro-Uyuni es excelente; un viaje cómodo, descansado y con un excelente servicio de comida en el coche comedor ; el paisaje es un adelanto de lo que veríamos durante todo el tour…¡ fantástico !.