#40 of 79 · desert
Salar de Uyuni
Uyuni → Incahuasi
100 km · May – Oct · Moderate
Twelve thousand square kilometres of salt, a horizon that lies, and a cactus island in the middle. Not a highway. Still one of the drives people mean when they say the world.
Viewpoints
Colchani
The salt hotels, the piles, the first white. Buy the glasses here.
20 km
3,650 m
Incahuasi
The island of cacti. Walk the ridge. The salar is a disk.
100 km
3,660 m
- Road
- Salt crust in the dry season; 4×4. The wet season is a mirror and a different risk — tours only. No fuel, no shade, no phone. Follow a track or a guide.
- Permits
- Park fee at the edge. A guide is not optional if you do not know the crust. Altitude ~3,650 m.
Tips
- 01
Dry season for the driving
May to October you can cross. December is a photograph and a boat.
- 02
The altitude is the hangover
Uyuni is already high. Do not sprint the first hour.
From the road
2 notes
Field reports from people who have driven this route.
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Diego Q.
Jul 2025
Dry season. Colchani, then a crust that sounded like glass. Incahuasi at noon, no shade. The altitude is the hangover. Uyuni first.
Valeria S.
May 2025
A guide, a 4×4, a track. I would not cross it from a map. The wet season is a photograph. This was May, white, and a horizon that lies.
