3 day trip from San Pedro to uyuni or tupiza

You will depart from San Pedro de Atacama around 6-7am and travel to the border. I takes just 1 hour, but you need to wait in the chilean migration office around 1-1.5 hours more. Around 09:30 you will arrive to Bolivia and we will start our tour. We will start visiting Laguna Blanca and Laguna Verde. Then we will drive for around 40 minutes and visit Desierto de Dalí. Close to midday, we will arrive to Polques, the hot springs, where you can swim while we prepare the lunch. Around 13:30 – 14:00 we will drive for 30 minutes to arrive to Geysers Sol de Mañana, this is the highest point of all the circuit, 5000 m.a.s.l. approximately. After visiting this amazing place, we will go to Laguna colorada and stay there for around. 1hour. Finally, we will stay close to the lagoon, in Huayllajara.

After the breakfast, you will leave Huayllajara at 07:30 to go to Desierto de Siloli, we will go to visit the famous Arbol de Piedra, one of the most visited tourist attractions in the area. After visiting Árbol de Piedra, we will drive for a while in order to arrive to Laguna Kara and Laguna Kachi, which are two beautiful andean lagoons. After that, we will go to the north and arrive to Laguna Turquiri or Laguna Negra, where tou will be able to see black andean ducks. Finally, we will cross two small towns, Julaca and Alota in order to arrive to Candelaria, where we will sleep. At the end of the afternoon, we will enter to the Uyuni salt flat to see the sunset there, then we will return to the accommodation.

Note 1: During rainy season (normally from January to April), if the salt flat has a lot of water, we can not stay in Villa Candelaria. From Alota, we will go to Uyuni or Colchani to stay there.

Today we will cross the immense Salar de Uyuni (3650 m.a.s.l.) early in the morning to see the Sunrise in the Uyuni Salt Flat. With 12,000 km², the Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt plain in the world, stretching away in all directions as far as the eye can see. From here you can see volcano Tunupa impressively overhanging. The salt flats are made up of 11 separate layers with a thickness that ranges from 2 to 10m. The depth of salt is 120 meters and with that it is the biggest reserve of minerals such as lithium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus and borax in the world. It has 14 small islands, the most important is the Incahuasi Island. Around the island, you can see Ojos de Agua, these are springs which act as pores for the salt flats. Leaving the salt bed, we will visit Colchani, the village where the salt is processed. Here there are various salt souvenirs and alpaca or llama wool clothes. Finally, we will go to see Cementerio de Trenes, where you will see a lot of ancient trains. Then we will go the central part of the city to finish the tour around 1-2pm.

Note 1: If you want to finish in Tupiza, it is possible, after we finish the tour in Uyuni, we will drive around 3 hours more to get to Tupiza.
Note 2: During rainy season (normally from January to April) if the salt flat has a lot of water, we can not visit the Incahuasi island.