It was our last day that we finally reached the Salt Flat, and we had to wake up at 5 am in our Salt hotel to catch the sunrise at the Salt Flat. For our 4 days to the Salt Flat, we traveled through the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, where we saw many flamingos and incredible natural sceneries. I believe the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia is on everybody’s travel bucket list. For the first part of our journey from Chile to Uyuni, check out: Lagoon! Lagoon! Reasons Why You Should Go to Uyuni from the Beautiful Atacama. For this post, I am going straight to the highlight of my excursion – the Salt Flat. We ended up having a great time during our 4 days in Bolivia, and I will tell my story bit by bit. Now that I think of it, I should have been better prepared – what if something bad happened and I had no support system around me in the most remote places in the world? Luckily, I had an amazing group of peers coming from Germany and Spain that translate what the tour guide said for me. It was a group of six, and the tour guide could only speak Spanish. I signed up for a 4-day Spanish-speaking local tour that took off from the Atacama and headed to Uyuni. I didn’t know why I did it, but I did it. I had to combat jet lag, high altitude, zero humidity, polarized temperature range, lost in translation, and complete remoteness with no cell phone coverage… My trip to Bolivia and Uyuni Salt Flat is by far the most physically challenging journey that I had in my life.

Buy some salt or souvenir in the Colchani villageĪn Atacama – Uyuni Road Trip Part 3: Bolivia Excursion: 8 Amazing Things That You Have to Do in Uyuni.Learn about Uyuni’s mining past in the Train Cemetery.Sleep in a salt hotel (but don’t lick one).Salar de Uyuni – the world’s largest mirror.

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