Puno to The Sun Island, La Paz and Salar de Uyuni - 5 Days

After Breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel, we will visit the Andean Roots Eco Village, The  Altiplano Museum,  the Handicrafts Village, the adobe domes, and the mortuary towers of the Urus people of Titicaca.

We will then visit Chipayas.  Here, the famous  Limachi family will greet us in the community.  This famous family built the famous totora reed boats who made an epic expedition across the Atlantic Ocean. You can also meet vicuñas, llamas, alpacas, and the almost mythical Suri- All of the South American Cameloids.

We will then leave the Titicaca communities behind us and head to the bustling capital city of La Paz! Our tour will include a number of the city’s highlights, such as the famous witches’ Market, where yatiri witch doctors sell their wares and services. We’ll also visit San Francisco Colonial Church and the traditional artisanal crafts sold along Calle Sagarnaga; Plaza Murillo, which is home to the Cathedral of La Paz, the Government Palace and the National Congress; and Calle Jaen, a colorful colonial street with a cluster of interesting museums.  

Our next stop is the Moon Valley which isn’t a valley at all, but rather an otherworldly maze of canyons, strange rock formations, and giant spires. This peculiar landscape was created by rain and wind erosion, which slowly cut away at the clay and sandstone of the local mountains. The result was this strange, craggy, and multicolored landscape, which wouldn’t look out of place in a science fiction movie.   

After exploring the Moon Valley and its two trails, we’ll head back to La Paz and take you to your hotel, where our tour finishes. 

Optional*

Dinner + Folkloric Show  at the Huari-Bolivia Peña Restaurante.

After you’ve had your breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel in La Paz and take you to the airport for your flight to Uyuni (not Included). We will be waiting to pick you up from the airport in Uyuni and then will depart for our salt flats tour. Our first stop will be the Train Cemetery, where rusty old trains sit in the desert, a strange and incongruous sight indeed. We will also visit the village of Colchani, where you can see the salt-extracting process and local handicrafts made of, you guessed it, salt. Then, we will start the amazing excursion to the Salt Lake and Isla Incawasi with its giant cactuses. Uyuni Salt Lake is the largest Salt Flat on Earth, located on the Bolivian High-Plateau with over 10.000 Km2. On route, we will visit the Salt Museum and stop at the Cold Water Springs “Ojos de Agua”. Arrive to Incawasi Island, an oasis with formations of algae and fossils. This island is covered by thousands of giant columnar cacti, some of them over a hundred years old, growing to a height of over 12 meters. The Bolivian Andes offers other-worldly scenery which is unparalleled in the world. The sound of silence will make your heart beat faster and the surreal pentagons of crystalline salt, the pure sky, and the giant cacti, certainly make you feel that there is no other place like this in the whole world. The landscape against the background of the salt flats extending to the horizon makes it an ideal place for photography buffs! This almost surreal yet stunning tour ends with a transfer back to your hotel.

Rainy season program ( December to April, approx).
Arrival to Uyuni, pick up from the airport and then visit the Train Cemetery. Continue to the salt processing workshop in Colchani, which is the entrance town to the Uyuni Salt Lake. We will begin this amazing excursion to the Salt Lake, the largest Salt Flats on Earth, located on the Bolivian High-Plateau with over 10.000 Km2. Visit the Salt Museum and stop at the Cold Water Springs “Ojos de Agua”. In the afternoon we will enjoy the water mirrors and walk along the borders of this magnificent Salt Lake. The Bolivian Andes offer stunning scenery which cannot be compared to any other. The sound of silence makes your heart beat faster and the surreal pentagons of crystalline salt and the clear sky, certainly make you feel that there is no other place like this on the planet. The landscape, against the background of the salt pans extending to the horizon, makes it an ideal place for photography buffs. Our day ends with a transfer to your hotel.

*Important
Kindly remember that during the rainy season, for safety reasons, some highlights of the area are not reachable. We will need your shoe size to provide waterproof boots to be used throughout the tour.

After breakfast we’ll head out to the north side of Salar de Uyuni. Here we can have a look at the Coquesa mummies, human archeological remains found in a small cave near the Tunupa Volcano. From here we have a fine vantage point for looking across the immensity of the salt flats. We’ll then explore the circular and dripping-wet Chiquini Cave, which is full of stalactites and stalagmites. We will have a picnic lunch and more time to explore the flats and take photos. We will then take you back to your salt hotel! 

We’ll have breakfast and then your driver will take you from Uyuni to Ollague 4.5 hours approx, which is on the Chilean border.