PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

DAY 1 – UNDERSTANDING THE UYUNI SALT PLAIN (UYUNI - TAHUA).
Today we have an unforgettable journey through 12,000 km ² of fantastic landscapes of salt. Prepare your camera! The dazzling white snow of the Salar de Uyuni (or Thunupa) resembles an immense glacier.
We enter the salar by Colchani, where we know the process of salt. Once on the surface of the vast white desert, visiting the water holes and salt hotel, and headed downtown to visit the island Incahuasi, lava rock and giant cacti and a summit that the climb becomes extraordinary viewpoint of the white plain of salt, then we headed north, a distance of several miles to the Volcano Thunupa, whose skirts will gain access to visit the Pucara Ayque (pre-Columbian ruins), with excellent views. Ascend the volcano in the car to visit Coquesa Mummies, with excellent views of the Salt Monument (east), which is lost in the skyline.
Continue to the population of Tahua, spend the night in Salt Tayka Hotel, with private bathroom, hot water and heating. (Breakfast, lunch).

DAY 2 - PUCARA ISLANDS, MIRADOR (TAHUA - SAN PEDRO DE QUEMEZ).
Expedition will continue our drive to Chillguilla population in the north, from where you start the climb, even by car, to the Pucara. Starting a walk climb from 60 to 90 minutes to the impressive site of Pucara Chillima. It is an intimate corner of the Salt Lake landscape of incomparable beauty, but also a spiritual presence that emanates from the stone buildings of more than thousand years old, that make us think about how to live on ancestral populations. The views this time are the Salar Sensual (west), so little known by tourists, full of islands and bays. Return to the car in a drop of about 30 minutes.
It is advisable for those who enjoy walking, from the Pucara return to the hotel following a path that the ancients used to make ritual visits to the mystical center. This is a trekk of 2 hours 15 min., Thanks to the views of both the great Salt Lake and the volcano Thunupa, becomes a unique and unrepeatable (in this case must be organized with the guide). Lunch at the Hotel de Sal
In the afternoon our expedition will head for Bell Island, located in the most beautiful bay of the salt flat, where the route begins in these islands to Charagua with the dominant image of Caltama. Already in their skirts began his rise to Patauno, where we leave the car. This is an almost abandoned village that attracts attention for its high location and solitude. From there we will take a brief walk about 15 minutes to Caltama Lookout, from which you can see, map in hand, the entire salar: bays, islands, mountains that surround it. Finish the day went to San Pedro de Quemez, where people spend the night at tayka Stone Hotel with private bathrooms, hot water and heating. (Breakfast, lunch, dinner).

DAY 3 - RE-ENTRY SALAR DE UYUNI (SAN PEDRO DE QUEMEZ - UYUNI).
After breakfast we will appreciate, walking, the hotel environment: pens with flames that steal the attention of our camera, the chullpares of the first inhabitants, the village burned, with its stone uprisings that have inspired the construction of the Hotel. He was burned in the War with Chile, in 1879, is an unknown page official history. In the car we head to the nearby Refugio Pueblo, which was built when they fled the burning village, in a secret between the volcanic rocks of great size.
Leaving behind that piece of history and its remains, we will go to Galaxy Cave, a shrine of cacti and petrified stromatolite and a cemetery chullpas (ancestral burials). The cave has a strange underwater geological formation of the seasons of Lake Puss (300 thousand years ago) and Lake Tauca (40 thousand years).
For Mala Mala Bay reenter the Salar, this time to again visit the Fish Island in the center of the salar. After dinner we will have a solo trek to the summit of the island from which we see once again the sea salt in its fullness, also observe stromatolites (limestone mineral sediments are evidence of the activity of the first inhabitants of the planet unicellular ). And from there to Salt Mounds, where we stop to take farewell photos with the soft evening light.
Our final destination is the town of Uyuni. It will be hard to forget a trip to the end of the world ... (Breakfast, lunch).

INCLUDES: Private 4x4 vehicle - bilingual guide (Spanish, English) - meals described in the programme - entrance tickets to sites and museum - 01 overnight in Tayka Salt Hotel – 01 overnight in Tayka Stone Hotel.

EXCLUDE SERVICES: Extras in restaurant, hotels (Soft drink, wine, etc.), Flights and airport taxes and other surcharges for flights, Insurance.

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