Salar de Uyuni tour - day 1

For next 3 days we booked the Jeep tour through the southwest part of Bolivia 🇧🇴. We were picked up around 7 in the morning by van which drove us to the border. Cars from Chile are not allowed to enter so we need to switch the car on border. As always the border controls in Chile took ages. Once in the Bolivian border our guide took care of the procedures and we got a delicious breakfast. We meet on border our driver / guide Mauro and departed by Jeep to the entrance of the national park Eduardo Avaroa. Shortly after the entrance we visited two amazing lagoons ~ Laguna Blanca & Laguna Verde. On the way to the Termal Pools Polques we passed the desert of Salavador Dali famous for its rock formations where Salvador Dali collected inspiration for his paintings. For the termal pools we had to pay entrance fee of 6 bs (less then 1€) the water was amazing and the views as well. We stayed almost two hours in this place as after termal pools we had delicious and healthy lunch. After lunch the most difficult part of the trip was coming. We were driving up to the geyser del Sol del Mañana which is in the elevation of almost 5200 meters. The geysers were smelling bad and I didn’t feel very good so I returned after while back to car and drunk a lot of water. Next and last stop was Laguna Colorado. Typical for its red color and large colonies of flamingos 🦩. It took us almost 1 hour by car to get there. We are driving off-road all the time so we are not moving very quickly. In Laguna Colorada we had longer stop around 1 hour to walk around and go up to the watchtower. The colors of the water were unreal and it looked even much better in reality. After the walk we only needed to drive to our accommodation for tonight. The drive took us 2,5 hours and we were really exhausted. We stopped on the way few times for some viewpoints or to see typical fauna and flora of this area. Finally we were going long road down from 4600 to 3800 meters and we could breathe better. We arrived around 6 in the evening to the village Villa Mar. The accommodation was nice, we got private room with shared bathroom drink tea and at 8:30 in the evening the dinner was served. The food was okay, the portions were quite small but to eat a lot so late would be also not that good for sleep. Our first day of the tour was amazing, we didn’t see any village or asphalt road and we felt like the only ones in the world. The Bolivian landscapes are incredible and we have never seen anything like that before 🤩🇧🇴.Läs mer