Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve of Andean Fauna
12h · Admission ticket not included
The day starts with a typical breakfast at our Salt Hotel. We leave for the Chiguana salt flat to the viewpoint of the Ollague volcano, an excellent place to appreciate a volcanic desert landscape and the scarce high-Andean vegetation such as Queñua and Yareta at 4,000 m.a.s.l. The Ollague volcano is border between Chile and Bolivia, then begins our tour of the altiplanic lagoons, all above 4,100 m.a.s.l. First, you can visit Cañapa lagoon, they are surrounded by flamingos which use them as food and rest points during their migratory movements, Laguna Hedionda (name due to the smell of sulfur burned because it is a volcanic area) And for noon you can taste the lunch on the road
We continue our journey to the Siloli desert which is an immense bare plain without vegetation and small pebbles, and in the desert there is the stone tree (strange rocky form formed by the erosion of strong winds) is one of the best known places In the south, a short distance away is the Andean Fauna National Reserve “Eduardo Avaroa” (The most visited protected area in Bolivia). We continue our way to Laguna Colorada which is very striking for its reddish color, its waters have their characteristic color due to the pigmentation that the Plankton that lives in the lagoon gives off. Continuing, we arrive at the town of Huayllajara where we will taste a dinner, and spend the night in a community family lodging (Basic lodging).
