You'll be met by our local representative and transfered to your hotel. Overnight accommodations at the Hotel Gloria. Our first destination is the old mining city of Oruro. On the way we will visit some chullpas, the ancient funerary structures from the Aymara kingdoms which were constructed of adobe and woven straw. After a short visit of Oruro, you'll continue south along Lake Poopo and arrive in the village of Jirira at the northern end of the Salar de Uyuni and strategically located below the ancient volcano Thunupa.
Accommodations are in a family-run bed and breakfast.
This is one of the most impressive landscapes in South America, bar none. The blinding spectacle is hard to imagine and its immensity of is only realized upon arrival at your campsite, Fish Island. This island sits in the central portion of the flat and has a spectacular 360-degree summit view of volcanoes, deserts and mountains. Dinner and overnight on the island. After breakfast and a walk around the island, you head northwest to one of the few exits from the salt flat.