Uyuni Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today would be a long day of travelling by 4x4 into the out reaches of Bolivia....very far from civilization and smack dab in the middle of nowhere.

We head south from San Joan in the early morning, and make for our first stop: Laguna Canapa. This is the first in a series of lagunas (lakes) that we will see today and tomorrow. Each one is...

Vi tog afsted fra La Paz med natbussen tirsdag aften. Det var den vaerste bustur vi har haft indtil videre! Vejene ned til Uyuni var simpelthen saa daarlige. Vi ankom tidligt om morgenen og havde besluttet at vi bare ville booke en tur naar vi ankom, da vi var blevet fortalt at det var billigst. Vi fandt saa et selskab vi ville med og satte de n...

Not too much trouble finding our way out of Potosi and onto brand new tarmac.
We pass a temporary Peaje post , a small sign and a tent. As we pass a guy the tent appears waving, we wave back and brake for no one.
It is 200km to Uyuni and the nice new tarmac disappears after about 40km and it is dirt, gravel, sand and road works. We pass a...

Krenuli u 8h iz San Pedra jeepom prema granici. Heather (cura iz Novoga Zelanda koju sam upoznala u busu iz Antofagaste prema San Pedru) nije imala potvrdu koja se dobije kad se ude u neku drzavu pa smo se brinuli da ce morati ostati jos jedan dan u San Pedru jer je vozac rekao da ne moze izaci van iz drzave bez tog papira. Na kraju policajac na...

Uyuni is one of the gateways into the Uyuni salt flats, the largest expanse of salt flats in the world. The small dusty dry town exists solely for tourism.
We took an overnight bus from La Paz to Uyuni, the first of many terrible night buses in Bolivia. During this particular night bus, we left two and half hours late from La Paz because t...

It was a bit weird to come back here - back doing the same 4 days altiplano cruising, same sights, same freezing cold at night. But doing the same thing, I tried to do it differently.

The last time I was in Salar de Uyuni, it was in the wet season. It gave a completely different, but also fascinating, aspect of the salt plains looking li...

On Wednesday evening we arrived at Uyuni and booked a three-day tour for Thursday, with 4 other people we met on the bus; Allan, Grant, Iona (three Glaswegians) and Tom (from Sussex).

So on Thursday we set off at about half past ten with our guide Iver and our driver Edwin in a really nice new-ish jeep. So our first stop of the day was ...

With the only routes to Uyuni through Potosi, thatīs the way we went. Normally happy to take a night bus for long journeys, that too was not an option for this trip. An early start and an uneventful ride to Potosi saw us arrive about 10am with a 2 hour wait (for the same bus company) for the connection to Uyuni. We decided to spend our time send...

On the way to the Salt flats we visited a cemetery for the dozens of trains that had passed away during the arduous trek in the Bolivian highlands.
The salt flats themselves are actually the remnants of a seasonal 12,000km2 lake which exists only for two months of the year. When this completely dries out all that is left is acres and acres of...

Upon arrival at Uyuni you are literally swarmed by a horde of operaters desperately advertising Salar tours. Its the life blood of the town. The main streets are lined with offices their windows adorned with photos from the Salar, and the operators standing outside the doors calling out to each passing tourist. We were lead somewhat astray by on...