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2 Days Bicycle Tour On The Salt Flat.
Uyuni, Potosi, Bolivia, Bolivia
Overview
The Uyuni salt flats count among Bolivia’s top natural attractions, but their remote location makes visiting independently a challenge. On this overnight cycling tour, see the best of the famous salt flats with logistics including accommodation, bike hire, meals, and transportation covered. Discover traditional handicrafts in Colchani, spin to isolated natural attractions like Tunupa volcano by bike, and visit the traditional villages of Chantani and Tahua with your guide.
- Up-close experience of the Uyuni salt flats by bike
- Reach natural attractions such as the Tunupa volcano with your guide
- Spend time in the remote villages of Chantani and Tahua
- Accommodation, bike hire, meals, and transportation are included
What's Included
Breakfast
Overnight accommodation
Driver/guide
Professional guide
Private transportation 4x4. (For 4 people.
Bikes, gloves, helmets,
Multilingual Guide. (Spanish English Portuguese
Personalized attentions.
Snacks
oxygen and first aid
Disinfectants and all preventive measures COVID-19
Dinner (2)
Lunch (2)
Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Tips.
Extra Water
Extra services at the hostal.
Toilet tickets.
Departure & Return
What To Expect
Itinerary
Day 1
UYUNI - SALAR DESERT - THUNUPA VOLCANO.
7 Stops
This is a unique experience that you can not enjoy anywhere in the world and the time of your life.
You will enjoy your time focusing only on the pleasure of the landscapes, colors, salt, water, dust, wind and especially colors contrasted with a blue sky and a white sheet of salt.
You will enjoy landscapes made just for you, places where you will not see anyone, just you.
We will visit more attractive than normal and frequented by the rest of the visitors.
Admission Ticket Included
Very old trains from the time of the RAILWAY 1890 company
Trains initially used to transport silver minerals from the Pulacayo Mine (1890-1973)
Uyuni becomes a railway station of steps of all national and foreign products
The largest steam locomotive workshop in South America was located in the city of Uyuni-Potosi-Bolivia.
Duration: 40 minutes
Admission Ticket Included
The closest town to the Uyuni salt flat is Colchani, a very picturesque town of adobe buildings that were dedicated for years only to the salt process until tourism was born in the region and began to develop a series of crafts and souvenirs so that visitors take away.
The salt crafts are made in colchani, the rest come from cities such as La Paz, Sucre, Tarija, Cochabamba and Peru.
Duration: 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
We entered the world's largest salt flat, a place where it will be difficult for them to locate where they are for a certain time.
And if you saw snow and ice in your life, it would seem to be on it, but it is a different component, sodium cloride in a great magnitude desert.
Duration: 6 hours
Admission Ticket Free
We start the bike tour for as long as visitors want, some do 15 km or 25 km in an hour, since everything is flat and in a straight line.
The bicycles that nomada experience owns are of rim 29 hydraulic brakes, front damping and a team of shimano relief and deore boxes.
Duration:
Admission Ticket Free
LUNCH TIME in the middle of the salt flat, we take care of taking all our non-polluting feeding equipment to the environment, since everything can be washed and recycled.
Duration: 1 hour
Admission Ticket Free
Thunupa Volcano Hostal.
We stayed at the thunupa volcano in double or matrimonial rooms with private bathrooms, hot water showers and a very nice view of the volcano and the town.
Duration: 12 hours
Admission Ticket Free
Accommodation:
Double or matrimonial room, with private bathroom and hot water shower.Meals:
Lunch Dinner Day 2
Volcan Thunupa - Piramide Island - Inca Huasi Island - Salar de Uyuni - Uyuni.
4 Stops
In the early morning we start driving the bicycle to the towns around the thunupa volcano, visiting its landscapes, llamas, flamingos and ruins of towns forgotten in history
Duration: 3 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
We enter the salt flat and head towards Isla Pyramide Huascar Inti (maps.me) where the Star Wars movie is filmed. In addition to offering splendid views, full of colors and sub real landscapes
Duration: 40 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
Inca Huasi Island, a magnificent place in the middle of the salar, where you can appreciate its flora, fauna, geography and the sub real landscape of a white world.
The island has cacti of more than 8 meters high, coral and basalt rocks of volcanic lava, birds and hummingbirds that become visible in the morning, also a rodent such as the vizcacha.
Duration: 2 hours
Admission Ticket Not Included
At the end of the afternoon we will take perspective photographs, you can bring your animals or your crazy ideas to capture it in a photo.
We continue back to Uyuni, where we finish the tour at the Nomada Experience office.
Thank you
Duration: 2 hours
Admission Ticket Free
Accommodation:
Not IncludedMeals:
Lunch Breakfast Dinner Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 15 hours of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
- Wheelchair accessible
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Availability for shows cannot be checked without making a booking. Credit cards will only be charged upon confirmation of show availability
- Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.Learn more about cancellations.
