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Buenos Aires to La Paz: Salt Flats & Sand Dunes

15 days, Buenos Aires to La Paz

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Itinerary Notes

Please note transportation providers in Bolivia can be unpredictable and change or cancel bus routes, our itineraries may change to accommodate these changes with the best passenger experience in mind.

Itinerary

Day 1Buenos Aires

Arrive at any time. Soak in the energy of the bustling and trendy "Paris of the Americas" before mingling with your fellow travellers, and get excited for the adventures to come with a few drinks at the hostel.

Your Welcome Moment: Welcome Moment - Meet Your CEO and Group

Your opportunity to meet your CEO and fellow travellers, and learn more about your tour. Opt to join the group for a local meal afterwards. Don't forget to see the notice in the lobby (or ask reception) for the official time and place to meet up with the group.

Your First Night Out Moment: Connect With New Friends

Connect with new friends on your first night out in a new destination. Only available on 18-to-Thirtysomethings tours.

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Teatro Colón Tour
Buenos Aires
25USD per person

Explore this stunning opera house on a guided tour and find out why it is voted one of the best acoustic venues in the world.

La Boca Neighbourhood Visit
Buenos Aires
10USD per person

Visit La Boca to soak in the vibrancy of the barrio’s brightly coloured buildings and El Caminito (a cobblestone street lined with artist studios that’s often used as an impromptu setting for tango performances). Or, if lucky, catch a match at fabled La Bombonera, the home stadium of the Boca Juniors’ fútbol club (the crowd's excitement is electric!).

Buenos Aires Guided City Tour
Buenos Aires

Enjoy a guided tour exploring beautiful, vibrant Buenos Aires. Be introduced to historic sites and districts, including Plaza de Mayo where Eva Peron's famed balcony presides over the square. See La Boca and San Telmo's colourful street life, painted houses, and the famed Recoleta Cemetery.

Buenos Aires Bike Tour
Buenos Aires

Experience this vibrant city cruising around on a bicycle with a local Argentine. Bike, helmet, knowledgeable tour guide, they've got it all taken care of, just come along for the ride and take in the many historical sights on offer. Discover Plaza de Mayo, San Telmo, colourful Caminito, and the working class neighbourhoods where Tango was born.

Meeting place: Cerrito 1128

Please note the bike tour begins at 10 AM. We advise booking a pre-night in order to arrive on time for this pre-sold optional activity. If you choose to arrive the day of the bike tour, please ensure your flight lands no later than 8 AM to ensure enough time to make it to the arrival point.

Day 2Buenos Aires/Salta

Skip a long bus ride and board a plane for a quick flight to Salta. Unwind at the hotel or liven it up with a visit to a Peña Folklore show to dance the night away and sip delicious Argentine red wine. Remember, no visit to Salta is complete without trying the local specialty — empanadas salteñas.

Plane
Buenos Aires – Salta2h

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... yup, it is a plane, actually.

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Peña Folklore Show
Salta
7000ARS per person

Enjoy a combination of local musical, dancing, wine and food at a peñas folklóricas. The performances can take place in restaurants, open-air squares or music halls and are usually very casual. While dancing the chacarera or zamba, any guitarist can jump on stage or start to sing. Dance the night away, try some delicious Argentine red wine and enjoy the great music.

Day 3Salta

Tantalize your tastebuds with the local cuisine today as you explore freely. Choose to saddle up and admire the scenery on horseback. Or, if you'd prefer, take a visit to the town of Cafayate to roam vineyards and sample some of the white wine produced at insanely high altitudes.

Your Discover Moment
Salta Full Day

There's plenty to see and do in Salta, and we wanted to make sure that you had some time to take it all in. Feel free to relax or try optional activities like the Museum of High Altitude Archeology, whitewater rafting, and hiking around Quebrada de las Conchas. Your CEO has more ideas if you need them. Just ask!

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Cafayate Full Day Tour
Salta
35USD per person

Travel along beautiful valleys and stop by the Quebrada de las Conchas, a beautiful red rock gorge with unique shapes eroded into its walls by wind and water. Continue on to the town of Cafayate, home to several vineyards and wineries that produce the torrontes grape. Be sure to sample some of this white wine that is produced at remarkably high altitudes. Salud!

Quebrada de las Conchas
Salta

Wind your way through valleys to the impressive layered red rock walls of the Quebrada de las Conchas, carved into high walls over time by the Las Conchas River. This is a spectacular sight, so be sure to take a few photos.

Horseback Riding and BBQ
Salta
75USD per person

Admire the scenery while your ride slowly carries you across hills and along trails in the countryside.

Museum of High Altitude Archeology
Salta
8000ARS per person

The Museum of High Altitude Archeology offers a peek into Inca culture in the Andes, with a focus on child sacrifices. The mummified remains of one such sacrifice is on display in the museum.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 4Salta/San Pedro de Atacama

Say "Adios!" to Argentina, because you're off to Chile today to a little town on the edge of the Atacama desert, the driest place on earth.

Local Bus
Salta – San Pedro de Atacama10h-11h

Climb aboard, grab a seat, and enjoy the ride.

Only one company operates this route each day and recently one of these companies has cancelled their services. If travel falls on a day without a bus, then please be aware that travel could be moved to Day 3. This means you would have one night in Salta and 3 nights in San Pedro.

Border Crossing (Argentina - Chile)
Paso de Jama – San Pedro de Atacama

Ready for a little more ink in your passport? Grab your bags and get ready to check another country off your bucket list.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 5San Pedro de Atacama

You will be amazed at everything you can do today. Explore San Pedro de Atacama on a mountain bike, cruise down the dunes on a sandboard, or chill out in the hot springs with your friends and fellow travel squad. Or visit the Valley of the Moon, an area on Earth that resembles the moon's surface. (How cool is that?)

Your Discover Moment
San Pedro de Atacama Full Day

There's plenty to see and do in San Pedro de Atacama, and we wanted to make sure that you had some time to take it all in. Feel free to relax or try optional activities like visiting the Valley of the Moon, relaxing in local hot springs, and taking a tour of the geysers. Your CEO has more ideas if you need them. Just ask!

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Horseback Riding
San Pedro de Atacama

Saddle up and head out on horseback for a new perspective on this scenic destination.

Mountain Biking
San Pedro de Atacama1h-8h
1500-5000CLP per person

Work up a sweat while exploring this scenic destination on the seat of a mountain bike.

Valley of the Moon Visit
San Pedro de Atacama
35000CLP per person

The sunset brings out a variety of colours over this majestic valley that experts say is the area on Earth that most closely resembles moon's surface. Explore the incredible formations created by wind and rain over millennia in this unique location between the Andes mountains and one of the world's driest deserts.

Sandboarding
San Pedro de Atacama
45000CLP per person

Hit the dunes and experience the rush of surfing down.

Observatory Tour
San Pedro de Atacama
50000CLP per person

Gaze at the impressive desert stars from one of the best places to see them in the world and be guided on a planetary journey with an expert astronomer.

San Pedro de Atacama Hot Springs
San Pedro de Atacama
45000CLP per person

Relax in large geothermal pools surrounded by stunning desert landscapes and scenery.

Day 6San Pedro de Atacama/ Salt Flats and Desert Crossing

Ascend by bus into the mountains and cross into Bolivia for a three-day 4x4 excursion to the Salar de Uyuni and surrounding desert altiplano with spectacular scenery. Today you will be crossing the varied landscape of the desert, stopping off at colourful lagoons along the way.

Note: During the rainy season the locations visited may change due to some routes being covered by water.

We offer unique accommodation on the Salar de Uyuni. Instead of very basic refuges and homestays most operators use, we have upgraded to simple hotels that are equipped with solar panels to provide electricity and hot water. Rooms are multi-share and each has a private bathroom. Meals are made from local ingredients, most of which are grown on-site.

Local Bus
San Pedro de Atacama – Hito Cajon

Climb aboard, grab a seat, and enjoy the ride.

4x4
Estación Avaroa – Salt Flats1h

Roads? Where this rough-and-ready vehicle's going, we don't need roads.

Salt Flats and Desert Crossing Excursion
Salt Flats

Spend three days in the stunning landscape between the Salar de Uyuni and the Atacama Desert in Chile. Enter a world unlike anything else as we drive across the salt flats; the piercing blue sky contrasts against the blinding white of the flat salt beds. Take memorable photos of the unusual landscape complete with mountains and active volcanoes. Visit the coloured lagoon of Laguna Colorada and enjoy the uniqueness of this region.

Meals included:

Lunch | Dinner

Day 7Salt Flats and Desert Crossing

Continue crossing the desert today, admiring the scenery while passing red and blue lagoons and intriguing rock formations along the route. Keep an eye out and you might spot wild llamas, alpacas, and even flamingos deep within the desert. Arrive at your home for the night — a G Adventures-supported community lodge in the heart of a desert oasis.

Salt Flats and Desert Crossing Excursion
Salt Flats

Spend three days in the stunning landscape between the Salar de Uyuni and the Atacama Desert in Chile. Enter a world unlike anything else as we drive across the salt flats; the piercing blue sky contrasts against the blinding white of the flat salt beds. Take memorable photos of the unusual landscape complete with mountains and active volcanoes. Visit the coloured lagoon of Laguna Colorada and enjoy the uniqueness of this region.

Your G for Good Moment: Jukil Community Experience & Lodge

Visit the Santiago de Agencha community, located two hours across the salt flats from Uyuni, a rural village surrounded by towering cacti and part of a small desert oasis. The community-owned salt lodge was renovated and expanded through a major project in 2016 funded by G Adventures’ foundation, Planeterra. With many of the village’s younger residences fleeing for economic opportunities, this lodge is seen by the community as a way to rescue their indigenous culture and provide opportunities for the future. Learn about their traditional agricultural practices, including their specialization in quinoa production, and take a guided walk with a community member to the sacred Jukil mountaintop for a beautiful view of the village below and the salt flats beyond. Meals of local ingredients grown in the village are prepared by ladies who were provided culinary training through the project. Leave Jukil Community Lodge knowing your visit is creating opportunities for a whole new generation of people in this community to improve their lives, and the lives of their children and grandchildren.

Meals included:

Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

Day 8Salt Flats and Desert Crossing /Uyuni

Get a head start on your day by rising early to cover more ground on your journey through the unique landscape of the Salar de Uyuni. Soak in the views of unimaginable scenery including volcanoes and salt lakes.

Salt Flats and Desert Crossing Excursion
Salt Flats

Spend three days in the stunning landscape between the Salar de Uyuni and the Atacama Desert in Chile. Enter a world unlike anything else as we drive across the salt flats; the piercing blue sky contrasts against the blinding white of the flat salt beds. Take memorable photos of the unusual landscape complete with mountains and active volcanoes. Visit the coloured lagoon of Laguna Colorada and enjoy the uniqueness of this region.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 9Uyuni/Potosí

Travel north to visit one of the highest cities in the world. On arrival spot the looming mountain of Cerro Rico, a working silver mine.

Private Vehicle
Uyuni – Potosí4h-5h

Settle in and scan the scenery from the convenience of a private vehicle.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 10Potosí

Wake up, get out, and explore Potosí. Meander the streets, stop at the market and meet some locals!

Free Time
Potosí Full Day

Get out there and explore.

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Silver Mine Tour
Potosí
150BOB per person

Take the opportunity to visit a working silver mine and learn more about the process of extraction and working conditions faced by as much as half of the people who live and mine in Potosí. Bring a bandana and wear protective gear (boots, helmet and headlamp) as you head deep into the bowels of Cerro Rico (Rich Hill).

Casa de la Moneda
Potosí
40BOB per person

Learn about the first global currency at this renowned National Mint museum.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 11Potosí/Sucre

Venture north to the beautiful colonial city of Sucre.

Private Vehicle
Potosí – Sucre2h30m

Settle in and scan the scenery from the convenience of a private vehicle.

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Hiking
Sucre

Head out of town, take in some fresh air, and explore this scenic area by foot.

Mountain Biking
Sucre

Take a guided mountain biking trip on the outskirts of Sucre and explore more of this beautiful region.

Sucre Dinosaur Tracks Excursion
Sucre

Get ready to get up close and personal with the prehistoric times: Sucre is home to one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur footprints made some 68 million years ago. Discover more than 5,000 footprints perfectly preserved footprints in the Cal Orck’o cliff just outside the city centre. See the world's longest trail -- 347m (1138 ft) -- left by a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex now affectionately known as 'Johnny Walker'.

Sunday Tarabuco Market
Sucre
40USD per person

On a Sunday morning, the Tarabuco market offers a glimpse into daily Bolivian life and the diversity of its people. Where indigenous groups from the surrounding area gather on Sundays to sell their goods.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 12Sucre

Discover the beauty of Sucre, known as Bolivia's "White City" at your own pace with a free day to explore. Set in a valley surrounded by mountains, you can choose to go hiking or mountain biking to admire this city from a different point of view.

Your Discover Moment
Sucre Full Day

There's plenty to see and do in Sucre, and we wanted to make sure that you had some time to take it all in. Feel free to relax or try optional activities like hiking, mountain biking, and visiting the Textile Cooperative. Your CEO has more ideas if you need them. Just ask!

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Sucre Dinosaur Tracks Excursion
Sucre

Get ready to get up close and personal with the prehistoric times: Sucre is home to one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur footprints made some 68 million years ago. Discover more than 5,000 footprints perfectly preserved footprints in the Cal Orck’o cliff just outside the city centre. See the world's longest trail -- 347m (1138 ft) -- left by a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex now affectionately known as 'Johnny Walker'.

Hiking
Sucre

Head out of town, take in some fresh air, and explore this scenic area by foot.

Mountain Biking
Sucre

Take a guided mountain biking trip on the outskirts of Sucre and explore more of this beautiful region.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 13Sucre/La Paz

One day in Sucre isn't enough, so take another free day to explore before winding down on an overnight bus to La Paz.

Overnight Bus
Sucre – La Paz12h

Curl up and catch a snooze en route to the next stop.

Your Discover Moment
Sucre Full Day

There's plenty to see and do in Sucre, and we wanted to make sure that you had some time to take it all in. Feel free to relax or try optional activities like hiking, mountain biking, and visiting the Textile Cooperative. Your CEO has more ideas if you need them. Just ask!

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Hiking
Sucre

Head out of town, take in some fresh air, and explore this scenic area by foot.

Meals included:

Breakfast

Day 14La Paz

Hope you got some rest on the bus because the vibrant city of La Paz awaits. After getting settled, head out to experience this high altitude city. Take a tour of the Valley of the Moon, check out the Witches' Market, or visit the nearby Tiahuanaco Ruins.

Free Time
La Paz Full Day

Get out and explore this high altitude city.

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Chacaltaya Visit
Chacaltaya

Chacaltaya (Aymara for 'cold road') is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, part of the beautiful Bolivian Andes.

La Paz City Tour
La Paz
35USD per person

Explore the city on a guided tour. Check out stunning cathedrals, impressive museums, and lively markets, learning more about the history of this fascinating city. Look for majestic Mt Illimani in the background.

Valley of the Moon Tour
La Paz
15USD per person

Tour the lunar landscape of the Valley of the Moon, observe the clay formations carved into the landscape by years of erosion.

Witches' Market Visit
La Paz

Learn more about the pre-Columbian Aymara beliefs at the Witches' Market. You can witness locals buying products such as dried frogs, potions, and talismans for use in rituals and offerings.

Death Road Biking Adventure
La Paz

Get your adrenaline pumping as you soar down the 'world's most dangerous road.' Start high up in the Andes at 4,700m (15,420 ft) and wind your way down this steep, narrow road on the mountainside into the depths of the Bolivian jungle. This is not one for the faint of heart, adrenaline junkies only!

Please note that the entrance fee of 53 Bolivianos (not included in this activity) must be paid directly to the National Park prior to biking, only local currency is accepted. We are unable to pre-pay this fee in advance, due to the park policy.

Should you choose to pre-book the Death Road Biking Adventure on day 1 of your tour, you will need to book a pre-night in order to participate in this activity.

Day 15La Paz

Depart at any time.

Departure Day

Not ready to leave? Your CEO can help with travel arrangements to extend your adventure.

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La Paz City Tour
La Paz
35USD per person

Explore the city on a guided tour. Check out stunning cathedrals, impressive museums, and lively markets, learning more about the history of this fascinating city. Look for majestic Mt Illimani in the background.

Valley of the Moon Tour
La Paz
15USD per person

Tour the lunar landscape of the Valley of the Moon, observe the clay formations carved into the landscape by years of erosion.

Witches' Market Visit
La Paz

Learn more about the pre-Columbian Aymara beliefs at the Witches' Market. You can witness locals buying products such as dried frogs, potions, and talismans for use in rituals and offerings.

Meals included:

Breakfast

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