COMMON QUESTIONS - BOLIVIA

Our Copacabana 2-day and 1-day tours both start from La Paz, but they can also start from Copacabana. So if you are in Puno and want to take our 2-day tour then you will need to arrange your own transport from Puno to Copacab...

We do not sell any salt flats tours from Dec 23rd through to Jan 6th because of safety concerns. 

Specifically this is due to the high number of incidences of drunk driving that occur on salt flats tours during this time. Some of the ...

Our salt flats tour options mostly visit and see the same sights but the tours may have* the following differences: 


Red Planet: English-speaking guide, sunset on the salt flats, salt hotel on the first night with private bathrooms (mo...

In our standard tour offerings we do not offer people the option to be able to upgrade hotels because this would involve taking one part of the group to the standard hotels and others to the upgraded hotel in a different area and therefore two differ...

You will read various reports about how rainy season affects Bolivia and traveling there - many of these will contradict each other simply because Bolivia is a large country, with different conditions throughout and also people experiences with weath...

A lot of people ask if they can do the Death Road bike trip and then catch a bus to Uyuni (or elsewhere) between 18.00 and 21.00 after the tour. We don't recommend this as the time of return from these tours can vary greatly - commonly it is between ...

Some people also ask if they can start a Death Road tour when they arrive in La Paz from an overnight bus from some other city such as Uyuni, Sucre, Potosi or Santa Cruz. These buses generally arrive in La Paz around 7.00 am but of course can vary. T...

Salt flats tours in Uyuni usually start "approximately" 10.00 am to 11 am but this can vary. The reasons it can vary, apart from punctuality not being very common in Bolivia, can be for a number of different things. For example there is only one fuel...

The Salt Flats (salar de Uyuni) tours leave year round including during the rainy season and in fact many people try to visit during the rainy season in order to see the "mirror effect" of the water sitting atop of the salt flats and reflecting the s...

The town of Uyuni and the Salt Flats themselves are around 3700 meters (12139 feet) so 1 and 2 day tours are usually around this altitude only.
For 3 day tours you will visit much higher altitudes with the second nights’ accommodation near the...

Rain does not stop the tour from going ahead unless it was so bad that the guides considered it to be too dangerous - we have not known this to happen ever. You are provided with wet weather gear (jacket and trousers) plus goggles so rain and mud don...

We can't say how often exactly because this is mostly dependent on weather conditions but we can say that cancellations happen more often in the rainy season than in dry season, in particular from January to April but they can happen at any time of t...

Yes, we offer a salt flats tour that starts in Uyuni and ends in Tupiza operated by our partner company Perla de Bolivia. You can read about the details of this tour following this link. The tour can only be done as a private tour.

We do not currently offer salt flats tours that start in Tupiza, sorry. It is much harder to get groups of 6 together and guarantee departures for tours from there so we choose to not offer this service rather than take bookings and have to disappoin...

While we normally suggest you should do either a 1 day or 3 day tour in order to have a complete experience, yes we can also arrange a 2-day-tour for you. At the moment we are only offering a 2-day-tour with a Spanish-speaking guide - you can see det...

Depending on the individual tour this might be included with the tour or a chargeable extra. Please ask at the time of booking with us or check the tour description in the Included/Not Included  or product FAQ section. For example if you book a ...

Whilst it is feasible that malaria could exist in Rurrenabaque, the pampas and the jungle areas nearby because there are plenty of mosquitoes, there have not been any reported instances of malaria. We do not consider it necessary to take malaria tabl...