Hotel Luna Salada Colchani

... br> <br>We met up with them on the 10th and organised our stay in the Salt Hotel and the English guide and then set off on the adventure on the morning of the 11th. Our guide was Milton, 25 years old, although he looked like he was 40 (hopefully he´ll never read this!). We also had a personal cook called Jessica, who it turned out should be on Masterchef! The food she created on a gas stove was out of this world, especially our cake!<br><br>The first day is a slow laidback ...

Natalie from Australia joined us on day 2. She was in a different LC on day 1. Other trips are longer or shorter, but all start day 1 the same. <br><br>Quick breakfast and loaded up the Land Cruiser. Our driver, Milton, has to be the BEST driver in salt flat tour history! He didn't get drunk, we had no mechanical breakdowns or flat tires, never ran out of gas, AND we had the cleanest vehicle of all we saw. The man ...

Met my tour group at 10:30 am. 3 Dutch chicas (Sisca, Rosa and Kiera) plus 1 English bloke (James). <br><br>First we went to the 'Train Graveyard' to look at old rusting locomotives. I don't know anything about trains so this part was pretty boring. But I took plenty of pictures =) Juan, our guide, explained the trains were from the UK and when Bolivia upgraded to new trains, these were sent to the desert to 'die'. Most ...

So, day 1 of our 4WD tour of the Salar Uyuni and National Parc. We gathered at 7:45am outside the office of our agent (Estrella del Sur, chosen narrowly over Cordillera and Pamela Tours) not really sure what to expect, having spent the previous day reading reports of drunk<br>drivers, broken down vehicles and overcrowding in the local tourist office guest book. Our fears were increased as we were stopped between the Chilean and Bolivian borders by the police, and ...

After a somewhat tiresome week, including the theft of Louise's bag and the seemingly constant attempts of the locals to rip us off, we were really hoping that travelling across the Salar de Unuyi would live up to the hype.<br><br>Firstly, and most importantly, we seemed to have a good guide and a decent group of people to travel with. In addition to Dara, we were joined by Lutz and Sabine from Germany and Steve from London. All seven of us, including Grobert our guide ...

Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flats. From Uyuni, you can book a tour of the salt flats. The usual trip of the salt flats is a four-day jeep drive through the flats and the surrounding rocky and sandy plains. You can be dropped off at the other side along the border of Chile and Bolivia, or be driven back to the beginning. We opted for the latter. No need to book it advance. One couple I met said they ...

So this is it, we finally get to see and go onto the Salar de Uyuni. We all slept much better last night and you call feel the energy has lifted and everyone is a little excited to finally see the salt flats. But there is a slight air of disappointment as we realise that we may not get to see a dry part of the salt flats. At this time of year there is always water on the flats, but there was really heavy rain last week and they are ...