1 activities in Potosi, Bolivia

Colchani is a small town that is like the entrance door to the salar where the inhabitants are engaged in the exploitation of salt manually, so you can buy hand carved salt crafts.

The Salar de Uyuni has an approximate area of ​​10582 km2. The salt crust has an average thickness of 6 to 10 meters deep, becoming the largest salt layer in the world, it is estimated that around 10 billion tons of salt or sodium chloride, lithium, boron, magnesium, potassium rest , strontium, etc. Salt pyramids are lots of salt in which the workers remove the outer layer and pile it up by exposing it to the sun for dehydration, then this salt is transferred to the town of Colchani to be processed and commercialized.

The Hotel de Sal, is the first hotel built with adobes de Sal, is located inside the salt flat and works only as a museum where visitors can walk and take pictures inside the hotel. The Salt Eyes are extreme holes where cold salt water emerges, there are salt eyes of different sizes and it has the property of curing rheumatic diseases. The Incahuasi Island is a tourist attraction of extraordinary beauty, there is a quantity of giant cacti that can reach up to 12 meters high. Before returning to Uyuni you will be able to observe the reflection of the sky in the salt flat commonly called the largest mirror in the world, these impressive scenarios can be seen where there is a greater concentration of water; A place visited by tourists because it allows us to take extraordinary photographs of the sunset and the reflections of the sky in the salt flat.

Optional, after visiting the Incahuasi Island we go to the Thunupa Volcano which is 5,435 meters above sea level, in the place you can observe Flamingos, llamas, and a beautiful bofedal. The arrival to Uyuni will be between 19:30 and 20:00 depending on the season