You just finished one of the wildest trips of your life. For three or four days, you’ve been bouncing around the alien landscape of the Salar de Uyuni. You’ve frozen your toes off at night, blinded yourself looking at the white horizon, and stared at flamingos until they started looking normal. It changes you. But…
Can you really see the biggest salt flat on Earth in a single day without feeling like you missed out? The short answer is: Yes. While the famous 3-day expeditions drag you deep into the southern deserts to chase pink flamingos and red lagoons, the actual Salar de Uyuni (the giant white void itself) is…
You didn’t fly all the way to Bolivia just to look at some salt. Well, maybe you did, but stopping there is a massive unforced error. The Salt Flat is just the lobby. The front door. The real, mind-bending stuff is further south, deep in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve. That’s where things…
The Salar de Uyuni is one of the most remote tourist destinations in South America. It is buried in the southwest corner of Bolivia, clinging to the crest of the Andes, far away from anything that looks like a major city. You are 540 kilometers south of La Paz and sitting at an altitude of…
Planning a trip to the Salar de Uyuni is… weird. It’s not like planning a vacation to literally anywhere else. usually, when travelers ask “When is the best time to visit?”, they’re hunting for the warmest weather or the cheapest flights. But when you’re talking about the Bolivian Salt Flats, that question hits different. You…
Packing for the Salar de Uyuni is confusing. You check the weather app and it says the high is 18°C (64°F) and the low is -15°C (5°F). You look at Instagram and see people in T-shirts doing yoga poses, but then you swipe and see someone else wrapped in a North Face parka looking miserable….
Bolivia always shows up in travel advisories with this weird mix of awe and panic. It’s a country of insane beauty, sure, but it’s also got rugged infrastructure and the occasional political protest that shuts down a highway. But when you start talking about the Salar de Uyuni, the safety conversation changes. You aren’t navigating…
The Salar de Uyuni is famous for being weird. It’s one of those places that doesn’t feel like Earth. During the day, it’s basically an assault on your retinas—a blinding white expanse where if you forget your sunglasses, you aren’t just uncomfortable, you’re doing actual damage to your eyes. It’s aggressive. It’s a playground for…
The Salar de Uyuni isn’t just a destination. It’s a glitch in the matrix. A dreamscape where the earth decides to mirror the sky, perspective just sort of… dies, and nature feels totally infinite. Standing on the world’s largest salt flat changes you. It’s weird. Good weird. And it sits right at the top of…
Connecting the Atacama Desert in Chile with the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is, geographically speaking, the absolute peak of South American overland travel. You are bridging the driest desert in the world with the largest salt flat on Earth, and you have to smash through the Andes to do it. But let’s be real…