![]() ![]() ![]() You do need a car for the tour, but if you don’t have one, try asking at the entrance if you can join in with someone who does. If you do happen to speak Spanish or have a translator, you can learn some interesting things about how they use the salt. The guides, who are from the nearby indigenous villages, only speak Spanish but it’s still worth doing. For only 400 pesos (as of January 2020, that was only about $5 USD), you get further out away from the crowds and of course get lots of ideal photo opportunities.įrom the tour, you can also see the cuts into the salt, which are about 2 feet deep and fill with rainwater so the local communities can harvest the salt once the water evaporates. This one-hour guided tour that allows you to drive out onto the salt. We went in the “rainy” season which was great because there were large puddles that showcased crisp reflections, just like mirrors on the ground.įrom the parking lot, you walk around an area of the salt and take lots of pictures. Now as for the salt flat, let me just say, I was impressed. Even the tourist things being sold were similar – like the llama sweater I bought in Cusco two years ago was for sale there! View on the drive up to the salt flats. Located in the Jujuy province on the border of both Chile and Bolivia, this region has beautiful colored mountains and reminded me so much of Peru – the look of the people, the Quechua language being spoken, the music comprising mostly of flutes, the llamas everywhere. ![]() So I was bummed.īut then we found out that in northwestern Argentina, there also are salt flats! Salinas Grandes are not as large and perhaps to some, not as impressive as those in Bolivia, but hey we would get to see some salt flats and we were already in Argentina, so it was much easier all-around. The dried up prehistoric lake is the world’s largest salt flat. Given the political unrest in Bolivia, we sadly chose not to go to Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni like we wanted to do. ![]()
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