OB-UYU/6 2 days and 1 night tour Uyuni Salt Flats - Thunupa Volcano

Tour Description

OB-UYU/6

2 days and 1 night tour

Uyuni Salt Flats - Thunupa Volcano

DAY 1 

Beginning at 10:45 a.m.

Depart from Uyuni towards the Train Cemetery, 10 minutes away from the town. The small town of Colchani is like the entry gate to the Salt flats, where local people exploit Salt manually and likewise, you can also buy salt made handcraft - Uyuni Salt Flats are about 10.582 km2. The salt crust is 6 to 10 meters deep, becoming the biggest salt layer around the world, about 10 million tons of Salt (sodium chloride), lithium, boron, magnesium, potassium, strontium, etc. - Salt pyramids, are piles of salt stacked and exposed to the sun light to dehydrate, after this process, salt is moved to Colchani to be processed and commercialized - Salt Hotel, first hotel build with salt adobes. Located inside the Salt Flats, works only as museum where visitors can hang out and take pictures inside - Salt eyes, these are holes from where salty water emerges, there are different sizes of them and have the property of healing Rheumatism - Incahuasi Island, extraordinary beautiful touristic attraction where you find giant cacti that can reach to 12 meters high - Thunupa volcano, 5.435 meters above sea level, which is the best viewpoint for the Salt Flats.  Overnight in Coqueza Community.

DAY 2 

Beginning at 07:00 a.m.

After breakfast, we climb the Thunupa volcano to visit the MummiesÂ’ Cave where you find pre-Inca times mummies at 4.200 meters above the sea level. After this, we return to Coqueza to have lunch. You can watch Flamingos, Lamas, Sheep and a beautiful cushion bogs.

Arrival to Uyuni at 17:00  approximately.

Include

• Accommodation, Transportation
• Food (breakfast, lunch and dinner) only during the tour.
• First aid kit

Does not include

• Entrance ticket to Incahuasi 5 USD.
• Galaxies’ Cave entrance 3 USD.
• Tips

Extra Services

Itinerary

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