Uyuni Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Head North from Santiago, Chile through the Atacama Desert all the way into Uyni, Bolivia Penguins, sea lions and whales along the coast. Geoglyphs in Northern Chile

So sadly this dry, barren, lonely town on the corner of the salt plains has played host to an attack of the runs for myself and lucy, when we have barely been able to know which end of ourselves to put into the toilet. However this does have its benifits - reading books, catching up on blog, a strange empathy towards the suffering of previous pa...

The Plane journey is a breeze back at 10hrs less than the jeep ride. It goes swimmingly and I fall asleep until Phil thoughtfully wakes me up to see the awesome view of the volcano back into La Paz. Unfortunately this is just when the turbulance kicks in, not bad but when you´re in a flying sardine can you really feel it. Me and chief rapdily go...

Stepping off the overnight bus from La Paz, we were met by a representative from the agency that we arranged our Salt Flats tour through. Keeping in mind, our expectations for this trip were EXTREMELY LOW, since we found it online and the total cost of the 3 day tour, including transport, food and accommodations was $99USD. The agency informatio...

Feeling it was finally time to get active again, assuming, of course, that active means spending 8-12 hours per day in a bus or jeep coaxing along an ever-growing set of hemorrhoids, we hit the road south from La Paz, taking a night bus down to Uyuni. This dusty little railroad town has a nice quiet feel and one kick-ass restaurant (Minuteman Pi...

The trip to Uyuni was a rather long and tedious one - first a bus trip to Oruro where we had lunch and then what must the slowest express train on earth - even dodgy looking trucks were going faster than us on the roads! Plus for the first couple of hours we had the joy of watching and listening to Bolivia pop music. At first all was good but th...

It was pretty difficult to decide which tour company to go with as none of them had any good recommendations, in the end we
decided to go with the cheapest, Pamela Tours, mainly because we didn´t
find anything bad about them on the internet which we took at a good
sign. We´re really glad we did too, not only are we alive (apparently a b...

Day of Waiting
After a few days acclimatising in la paz and enjoying hotel sagarnaga, it was time to move on. We checked out and left our bags at teh hotel for the day (the guy told us to leave them until whenever we wanted, as this was our home - so friendly!)
Normally a day waiting for onward travel is a bit lazy and boring but we had a ...

We arrived in Uyuni at 2 AM after an extremely bumpy train ride. Our first attempt at finding a hotel turned into a shouting match when they tried to change the price on us, so we headed off to Hotel Avenida where I had stayed four years ago.

In the morning I tried to locate the agency who had shepherded me across the Salar previously, b...

Uyuni
Abends ging es mit einem einfachen, ungeheizten Bus ins 550 km entfernte Uyuni, einer kleinen Mienenarbeiter- und Touristenstadt im eiskalten Südwesten Boliviens gelegen. Wir kamen um 6 Uhr morgens an uns waren dank unserer Daunenschlafsäcke nicht völlig durchgefroren. Wir gönnten uns einen Tag Pause und suchten uns aus den 80 Touranbie...