Overview
The launch town for tours across the surreal Salar de Uyuni — a blinding white expanse that becomes a giant mirror in the wet season. Multi-day 4x4 trips push on to coloured lagoons, geysers and flamingos.
Top things to do
Salar de Uyuni
The blinding 10,000km² salt flat that becomes a perfect mirror of the sky in the wet season.
Incahuasi Island
A cactus-covered coral island marooned in the middle of the salt, ringed by hexagon tiles.
Train Cemetery
Rusting steam locomotives slowly returning to the desert on the edge of town.
3-day salt flats 4x4 tour
The classic loop across the salar to coloured lagoons, geysers and the desert toward Chile.
Sunrise mirror photography
Head out before dawn in the wet season for the flawless reflections and forced-perspective shots.
Stargazing on the salar
Some of the clearest night skies anywhere, with zero light pollution over the salt.
3-day sample itinerary
- 1
Arrive Uyuni
Train cemetery and tour briefing.
- 2
Salt flats
Sunrise on the Salar, Incahuasi island.
- 3
Lagoons & deserts
4x4 through the southwest circuit.