Highlights of a Bolivia Salt Flats Tour
A few frosty highlights from a Bolivia salt flats tour in May, at the start of the winter season. Plus tips on the best time to visit Salar de Uyuni.
A few frosty highlights from a Bolivia salt flats tour in May, at the start of the winter season. Plus tips on the best time to visit Salar de Uyuni.
Our four day trip from Tupiza to Salar de Uyuni ended in the centre of Uyuni at about 1pm, so from there we headed straight… Read More »Uyuni Train Cemetery
It was five in the morning and we were racing through empty darkness, cutting across a blank desert of unlit white, the headlamps of our jeep flitting… Read More »Salar de Uyuni Tour, Day Four – Sunrise and Salt Flats
After the fiasco with Sam falling through the ice the day before, we woke up on the third morning of our Salar de Uyuni trip… Read More »Salar de Uyuni Tour, Day Three – Rocks and Bones
The Salar de Uyuni tour is easily the most popular tourist destination in Bolivia, and it’s easy to see why. The salt flats themselves are… Read More »Salar de Uyuni Tour, Day One – Wind and Snow
The four day trip from Tupiza to Salar de Uyuni was a constant journey. Most of everyday was spent in the jeep, with our guide… Read More »Salar de Uyuni Tour, Day Two – Lakes and Mountains
On our second day in Bolivia’s Wild West town, Tupiza, we got up early and headed out to find the Quebrada de Palmira. Preferring to hike… Read More »Quebrada de Palmira in Tupiza
From our old-fashioned mine experience in Potosi, we headed down to Tupiza, a small town set in scenery that looks almost exactly like the Wild… Read More »El Canyon Tupiza
From Sucre, we began our journey south by travelling down to PotosÃ. At 4090m above sea level, it’s one of the highest cities in the… Read More »Potosi Mine Tour
I’ve already mentioned all the things we got up to in the beautiful Bolivian capital of Sucre – in between Spanish lessons, that is –… Read More »Siete Cascadas
Although we spent ten whole days there – the longest we’ve stayed still on this whole trip – we didn’t actually do a whole lot… Read More »Stopping in Sucre
Our second day in Torotoro, one of the most beautiful spots in Bolivia, was every bit as good as the first. We headed into the… Read More »Torotoro Day Two – Canyons and Rivers