Luxury holidays in Bolivia
Stand on the Salar de Uyuni after rain, with the sky mirrored at your feet. We pace your climb into the Andes and book the lodges and guides, so you arrive rested.
It comes off your final price, and is refunded in full if you don't go ahead.
Bolivia is the trip people talk about for years afterwards. After rain, the Salar de Uyuni turns into a mirror so wide you lose the horizon, and at sunset the whole plain glows pink. Further south, flamingos feed in the red water of Laguna Colorada, and geysers steam in the cold morning air near the Chilean border.
Altitude shapes every day here, which is why the route needs care. La Paz climbs the walls of a canyon at about 3,600 metres, its markets selling herbs and charms beside colonial churches. Sucre is lower and gentler, with whitewashed streets, while Potosí keeps the history of its silver mines. Lake Titicaca, shared with Peru, sits high on the Altiplano and makes a natural link between the two countries.
Each stop sits at a different height, which shapes how long we suggest you stay.
Sucre's whitewashed colonial centre, then Potosí below the Cerro Rico, the mountain whose silver funded the Spanish empire for centuries.
The largest salt flat in the world, a white plain at 3,600 metres that turns into a vast mirror after rain.
A city built into a canyon below snowy Illimani, crossed by cable cars with views over the rooftops and the high plain.
The dry winter brings clear roads, and the wet summer brings the famous mirror on the salt.
Wet season, with the Salar de Uyuni often flooded into a mirror.
Rain in the highlands, Carnival in Oruro and the mirror effect at Uyuni.
Rains ease, the last weeks for reflections on the salt flats.
Drier days return to La Paz, Sucre and the altiplano.
Dry season begins, with clear skies over the salt flats.
Cold nights and bright days in the high Andes.
Dry and sunny across the highlands, the busiest month.
Clear skies on the altiplano, with strong winds late in the month.
Still dry and mild, a quieter month at Uyuni.
Warmer days and dry conditions across most of the country.
The first rains arrive in the highlands.
Wet season begins in earnest across La Paz and the altiplano.
Most flights link through Santiago, Lima or another South American hub, and the times below are a guide.
Peru shares the lake with Bolivia, which makes Cusco and Machu Picchu a natural next step.
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