Explore the world famous salt flats, discover new cities or venture into the Amazon Jungle on a tour of Bolivia.
Best Bolivia Tour Operators
These travel companies offer epic trips to Bolivia helping you to see the highlights of the country.
Travel to Bolivia
Take yourself away to this remote and exotic world that you can sample in the space of an ordinary fortnight.
Across the remote and windswept Bolivian altiplano, discover the colonial towns of La Paz, Potosi and Sucre. Cross the shimmering salt flats: a landscape of cactus-studded deserts; pink flamingos; red, green and turquoise lakes unfolds before you.
Some overland South America tours descend to the lunar landscapes of the Atacama Desert, then on to the Chilean coast: the trendy beach resort of La Serena and the cosmopolitan capital city of Santiago.
Highlights
- Colonial Sucre
- Salar de Uyuni Salt Lake
- Laguna Verde
- Altiplano Crossing by Jeep
- Laguna Blanca
- Laguna Colorada
- Isla Pescado
Attractions & Must See Destinations
Sucre
When in Sucre cheesy as the ‘dino mobile’ looks a trip to the dinosaur footprints will exceed your expectations. The cost of a visit is cheap and the prints are extensive – it’s just such a shame & quite unbelievable that such a treasure is still part of a working quarry. The prints scale a sheer rock face which shakes with dynamite explosions from the base even as you watch – let’s hope that UNESCO win their battle and these footprints are preserved for future generations.
Uyuni
Do not miss the world wonder which is the salt flats of Uyuni. There are several trips – including a 1 day trip out to the salt flats & back or a 3 day trip across the salt flats and on in to San Pedro De Atacama – Chile. If Chile is on your travel path then this is proably the best trip to take as you will see all the attractions of the salt flats along with the red & green lagoons & flamingos. The 1 day trip will however cover the salt flats element and from Uyuni you can get an overnight train down to the border with Argentina. These trains do not leave every day though so worth checking before you arrive to avoid a prolonged stay in Uyuni. Once in Uyuni every shop is a travel agent and trying to choose who to go with blows your mind – all offer pretty much the same thing the decider needs to be how good their English is and the state of their vehicles.
La Paz
La Paz is the unofficial capital of Bolivia and the biggest city at high altitude in the world. It´s a fascinating city, full of markets .. including the notorious witches market where Bolivians buy llama foetuses which hang in the doorways of all the shops – they´re believed to bring good luck if placed in the foundations of a building. For all those that have read ´Marching powder´ – yes the prison is still there but unfortunately backpackers are no longer permitted access (although in Bolivia money talks so if you’re feeling brave it could be worth a try!).