Salar de Uyuni

C"mon - is this place for real?!

Ive just spent the last few days doing a tour magnífico, which started off with some kung fu T-rex fighting on the worlds largest salt flat/natural mirror, bypassed a train cemetery, and ended with mountains and flocks of fluro pink flamingoes.

My head is still spinning with the altitude - we got …

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When we finally arrived in Uyuni it looked like we had arrived in an abandoned town. It is a dusty little town that now exists purely for tourism to the salt falts. we set off to find a hotel but most looked like complete dives so we ended up in one of the best in town called Tonito hotel. Considering the price, (about 30 euro but with an awesome …

So the morning of the border crossing went as smooth as silk. We caught the bus to the border, walked up to immigrations and after giving my passport a funny look he stamped it and on our way we went. We ran into some othre friends as we all walked to the train station across town. Imediatley you could see, smell and feel the cultural diffference …

Just some pics of my three day Uyuni Salt flat tour. We drove down close to the Chilean border and then came back up to Uyuni again. It was great! Ofcourse we all had fun taking pics at the salt flats. It´s difficult to come up with something original anymore. Almost everything´s been done. The nights were cold though. Everybody in my group, …

Quoi de plus beau qu'une excursion de 3 jours sur le salar d'Uyuni et dans le Sud Lipez?! Bien que le salar soit inondé, nous interdisant de le traverser et de dormir dans un hotel de sel, nous avons passé 3 jours fabuleux en compagnie d'un couple de français et 2 australiennes. Une sacrée équipe avec notre guide Oaldo, Sabrina et moi avons joué …

Se we took a 5 day trip from Tupiza to Salar de Uyuni, the first day of which was hell for me and amazing for Jon, as he pointed out to me many times throughout the day. I think it was as I was puking in a ditch in a field full of llamas that he said to me ¨I think we´re going to have very different memories of today.¨
But I do remember the …

Dia Tres of the Salar de Uyuni Trip

I have been awake most of the night feeling a bit funky. I take some anti-spew and anti-the other end drugs for breakfast to cope with journey. I also take the front seat of the jeep and crumple there feeling super sorry for myself. We have a 6am departure to get to Uyuni early and check out the salar. < …

As I had posted in my last blog, we had booked a 3 day jeep tour to Uyuni in Bolivia starting Thursday. We had heard enthusiastic stories about the trip and I am glad to say it did not disappoint.

We were collected Thursday morning and taken to the Chilean-Bolivian passport control (Hito Cajón crossing). As most of this trip was at a high …

Na een helse busrit vanuit Potosi kwamen we rond 3u 's nachts toe in Tupiza. Gelukkig was er nog in kamer vrij in het hotel waarin het reisagentschap (waarmee we de tour zouden doen) gevestigd is. Na een lekker ontbijt in het hotel vertrokken we met onze jeep richting Salar de Uyuni.

Het gezelschap in onze jeep bleek meteen heel goed mee …

... people read this but I think everyone can appreciate it just as well). After the cemetary, we drove to the edge of Salar de Uyuni, a huge salt flat that was left when a prehistoric salt lake dried up. It's one of the most bizarrely beautiful places on ...

... Uyuni at 10:30pm (52bs) Saturday 9/2 Wake up at 8am Internet in morning/stamp passport Meet group at 11am Jeep ride to Salar de Uyuni Sleep in San Juan; Beers with 2swiss, 3 french Sunday 9/3 Wake up at 7:30am Visit lots of lakes End at ...

... Villa Martin, the ´salt hotel´, for our second night. It is completely constructed of rock salt blocks cut from the nearby Salar de Uyuni. We walk down a corridor where the floor is made of loose salt powder, and we are shown to our double room which ...

... day, our final day of the tour, we headed into what the area that the whole experience had been for - the Salar de Uyuni. The Salar de Uyuni defies description. Its a salt flat 12,000 square kilometres in area, made up of the whitest salt imaginable, ...

... we set off in an old Toyota Land Cruiser on a 3 day tour through the salt plains and desert to the Chilean border. The "Salar de Uyuni" is a 12000 sq km desert of salt formed from an ancient salt lake. Basically it is just a blinding white expanse of ...

... from Argentina; Chris, Vibeke and Marethe from Denmark; our guide Valerio and cook Isa. First stop was the massive salt pan, Salar de Uyuni, about 40 minutes north-east of town. Salar de Uyuni (altitude 3,700m) is the biggest salt bed in the world, ...

... subsiding. That evening everyone had a glass of wine (except myself) and heaps of food.....making up for the two days of not eating much at all. How nice it was to feel almost back to normal. Tomorrow we were heading to the magnificent Salar de Uyuni. ...

... , we were soon on our way to the incredible Salar de Uyuni full of excited aniticipation. Here are a few interesting facts.... 1. The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, measuring 10, 582 square km. 2. It sits at 3,656 metres above sea level ...

... . We ended up going on an adventurous trip to Rurrenabaque, but since that day I knew I would come back to Bolivia in order to visit Salar de Uyuni. And now I'm here!! I have signed up on a three days jeep adventure with Cordillera Tours in San Pedro de ...

... south west bolivia was a lake which dried up to leave two smaller lakes and two major salt concentrations, the lagest being the Salar de Uyuni. It sure was a sight to behold, an endless view of white salt against blue sky and we we going to ride across ...