Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia Travel Blogs

Flamingoes, fumeroles and wide open spaces
Feb 3, 2006 (11 photos)

... 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, ...

Can you pass the salt please?
Jul 30, 2005 (27 photos)

... . 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 ...

Jeep Jeep
Dec 9, 2005 (15 photos)

... from Canada, and Kathina from Finland, who were all planning on doing the same tour of the south west of Bolivia and the salt flats (the Salar de Uyuni). So, we decided to go together. After a minor delay of nearly two hours, the luxurious train made it ...

Salar de Uyuni
Nov 9, 2006 (24 photos)

... , makes getting a good night's sleep difficult. Getting food poisoning and the incident with our drunk guide in Salar de Uyuni just about finished us off.   However, not to leave Bolivia on a totally negative note, it's the ...

Mindblowing Bolivia
Sep 23, 2006 (59 photos)

... as we were very dusty from having to push the 4WD after it got bogged in the sand. The third day we crossed the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world. It was quite spectacular, with shimmering white crystals as far as the eye could see. In ...

Salar De Uyuni
Jan 13, 2006 (2 photos)

Sorry for the delay in writing this entry! I´ll skip it in the meantime and write about it in June, I´ll add a link back here at that time. Cheers for now!

A little bit drunk, and nearly stoned
Sep 24, 2004 (14 photos)

... alpaca wool blankets were warm and didn't smell too much, but then again I wasn't expecting much for GBP1.40 (I think Bolivia is comfortably - or rather, uncomfortably - the cheapest country I've been to). The next morning (Happy 42nd Anniversary, Mum and ...

¡No más Aventura!
Jan 13, 2006

After being so pleased that I could understand the Bolivians I started my tour of the Salar de Uyuni with a family of 4 Urugians who spoke just like the Argentinians, although I found it difficuilt to talk to them starting out, back to speaking funny ...

Another World
Jan 27, 2004

... again... LA tomorrow, Fiji Friday... He he I kinda ran out of superlatives on my last note about Bolivia. Then I went and did a tour of Salar de Uyuni. A place of the likes I've never seen or experienced before and surely will never even come close ...

Salt, salt everywhere
Nov 13, 2007 (44 photos)

... the bus Andrea, our friendly, predatory tour operator pounced on us with an offer for the three day, two night trip out onto the Uyuni Salar (salt flat).  All we wanted to do was sleep.  She said she would take us to a nice hotel with hot water, ...

Uyuni - Salar de Uyuni
Nov 19, 2003 (5 photos)

... our guide, driver and chef. An hour out of Uyuni and we made it to the Salar. I've heard people say that the salar de Uyuni is the greatest nothing imaginable. While this is reasonably accurate, the Salar is something. It's salt. It is in fact over 12, ...

Amazing Salt Flats and Flamingoes!!!
Aug 3, 2005 (22 photos)

... of the volcano opposite! Nice! We built our very own rock pile to mark the end of our tour and our last day in Bolivia, had a team photo with Family France and then jumped on the bus for our border crossing into Chile! Bye Bye lovely Bolivia, Hola Chile ...

Salar de Uyuni to the Chilean border
Jan 14, 2007 (40 photos)

... manage to blag us the best dorm room, with beds that were actual intact! The toilets were something else! We thought the toilets in Bolivia in general were bad but these were worse! They were the usual no flush...have to get a bucket of water and pour it ...

Olivia reaches Bolivia
Jun 2, 2008

... flats!!  To my relief we then arrived at our 2nd overnight stop in a delightful old village overlooking THE salt flats - Salar De Uyuni!  This place was a lot warmer - although by no means warm - it also had ´hot´ showers and electricity between 7 ...

Butch Cassidy eat your heart out!
Sep 5, 2005 (22 photos)

... hotel room. (3pound for an hour, a splash-out I think was justified!!). Tour 2, The Salar del Uyuni tour is the most famous and popular in Bolivia. 4 days in a jeep travelling around the most remote and beautiful scenery imaginable (actually it was ...

Salar de Uyuni
Jan 3, 2006

... It was amazing! The Lonely Planet and any other guide book tells you that it doesn´t really matter which tour agency you book a trip to Salar de Uyini, it all depends on the driver and his car - hear, hear , we can confirm this... It had been raining all ...

Heisse Terme - Kalte Naechte
May 23, 2007 (30 photos)

4 Tage - 3 Naechte sollte es auf Tour gehen. Thomas hat alles brav von Santiago aus organisiert  und wir mussten vor Ort in San Pedro nur noch bestaetigen. Und Wasser kaufen. Viel Wasser. Beim Wasserkauf hoerte ich zum ersten Mal einen Kommentar ...

Bouncing through Bolivia to a Salar Sunrise
Feb 3, 2009 (59 photos)

... ;     Rising at the hideously early hour of 4.30, we were soon in the jeep and driving across the Salar de Uyuni under an inky blue-black sky,  bright with stars.  It was not quite light when we parked and walked up the ...

13/07/05 - 16/07/05
Jul 13, 2005 (10 photos)

I am so glad that I´d gotten over my illness before I started this 4 day, 3 night tour through the Southwest of Bolivia. If I ever complain of a British winter again then please remind me of this. I have never been so bloody cold in my entire life. The ...

Salar de Uyuni
Dec 16, 2006 (12 photos)

Salar de Uyuni - After the two days in the nearby National Park, we arrived at the edge of the Uyuni Sal Flats.  These are the largest and highest salt flats in the world.  The first night we stayed at a hotel made from salt.   ...

Fflamingos ar lyn coch/Flamingoes on a red lake
Oct 1, 2006 (14 photos)

... a cwpl ohonyn nhw yn yr wythnosau diwetha, a does dim un ohonynt wedi gallu deall dim wy´n dweud. Yn gynta mi aethom ni i´r Salar de Uyuni, llyn halen mwya´r byd (4085 milltir sgwar, i fod yn gywir). Mae fel anialwch mawr gwyn, perffaith fflat. Mae ´ynys´ o ...

Geysers And Dali
Jun 12, 2007 (11 photos)

... steam erupting from bubbling mud as geysers. No one in the group was too happy with the morning wakeup or the Sol de Manana geysers or another companies broken down vehicle... The real thrill came when we descended downwards and came across a hot spring. ...

The dust gets everywhere
Oct 20, 2008 (9 photos)

... at volcano Olague, which is still an active volcano and could see smoke spouting out. Also crossed a small salt plain called Salar de Chiguana. Stopped at a village called San Juan where we played football with a couple of the village kids, and finally ...

Makes the trip to Bolivia worthwhile...
Nov 6, 2006 (58 photos)

... skeletal and bizarre. Finally, after about seven hours on but mainly off, given the state of most of Bolivia's 'paved' roads, the road we arrived in Uyuni where a strictly timed rota ensured that all of us managed to have showers in less than an hour! ...

3 day trip through the Andes to Bolivia
Apr 13, 2006 (17 photos)

... the Paris to Dhakar rally. We got there first, secured our room and settled in. This place was located on the edge of the Salar de Uyuni, the biggest Salt Lake in the world, 12,000 sq. kms. It was luxury compared to the first night´s accomodation. By this ...

Smelly Lakes And Windswept Rocks
Jun 11, 2007 (24 photos)

Day two's sunrise start saw us on a long days drive away from the Salar and into high altitude through barren and desolate landscapes towards Volcan Ollaque(an active volcano) and the Chilean border before arriving at the sulphur stench of Laguna Hedionda. ...

Blinded By The Light
Jun 10, 2007 (21 photos)

The most renowned of Bolivia's attractions is the Salar de Uyuni; a huge salt flat located in the South West of Bolivia. The 3 day trip starts with a visit to the Cementario de Trenes or train cemetery and it was here that I started my trip in style, by ...

Lots of salt, lemon, but no tequila!
Oct 30, 2009 (55 photos)

... of vegies and soup (We didn’t get to try llama though!). 7. Of course, last but not least the actual salt plains (Salar de Uyuni), these are the biggest in the world, and if it wasn’t for the other tour trucks you almost felt like you could be ...

Sonnenaufgang Salar De Uyuni
Apr 6, 2009 (12 photos)

... beladen und um 5 Uhr Abfahrt unter dem grossartigem Wuestensternenhimmel. Nach einer halben Stunde erreichen wir den Beginn der Salar de Uyuni, die groesste Salzwueste der Erde! Auf einer Hoehe von 3660 metern erstreckt sich hier auf einer Flaeche von ...

Salt Flats
Apr 10, 2009 (14 photos)

... had taken its toll and Sam was feeling a bit worse for wear, so we had to say goodbye to the Galweigans and stay an extra couple of days in Uyuni.   The first 6 hours of the road to La Paz wasn't paved, so we were in for another restless night bus.