anyone done salar de uyuni trip?
 

is it possible to buy all the sleeping bags warm stuff etc there? or does it need to be dragged around the rest of the holiday?

From where? Where would you start. I am doing that adventure in August.
Please let me know...
Angie

were currently looking to go sunday 17th to tuesday 19th august to the salt plains and lagunas there, travelling overnite to and from la paz before and after. Wednesday morning arrive in la paz, and travel to cusco fri morning, seeing island of the sun and puno floating lakes on the way...

what are you doing?

Most everyone does the 3 day/2 night trip and every other person in Uyuni sells them.

We booked with Emprexsa, one of the best tour agencies, $65 ea, and they provided (new) clean sleeping bags if you ask.

We could not have had a better experience w/Emprexsa . . . our guide and cook were excelent. This is not a luxury trip but a fun, once-in-a-(young)-lifetime trip . . . prima donas need not apply.

We are budget travelers, seniors . . . if interested in what we did/where we went in 2 weeks in Bolivia, email me and I'll send you my detailed report . . . more than you ever wanted to know about me, Vicki, the trip.

Hope you have a terrific trip . . . we did.

Sandy (in Denton)

I did the Salar de Uyuni trip in June 2006 on a tour.

Please note that the area is very remote and quite isolated. There were villages but we were not taken to markets to shop in the Salar area. When I was visiting in June, the weather was very cold. Our tour leader booked a local tour from Uyuni that took us to the Chilean border and we stocked up our supplies in Potosi prior to going to Uyuni. I bought my winter jacket and other winter supplies in Potosi. Our tour leader rented the sleeping bags for us prior to leaving for the Salar.

thanks for the info - the biggest problem seems to be finding reputable tour guides - ive heard so many bad stories...

would be grateful if you could email ur trip report [email protected]

thanks

Oops . . . I forgot to include my email address . . . [email protected].

Shmulib . . . I'll send it right away.

Anyone else, please email me if you want my travelog . . . these posts get buried so fast, I can't keep up.

Thanks,
Sandy (in Denton)

I'm looking into a possible trip to the salt flats for the April/March 2010 time frame. Will it be easy for a solo traveller to join a group service for the salar de uyuni trip? Thanks.

www.lokihostels.com

La Paz good tour options for Salar

if on budget or solo might check there

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might want to post this on SA for better response