12. November 2014

Salar Coipasa & Salar de Uyuni

Route: Colchane (Chile) - Salar de Coipasa (Bolivia) - Llica - Salar de Uyuni - San Juan // 307 km, 4 days.

posted @ km 20'096

Since a long time we were excited to ride the Salars Coipasa and Uyuni.

A strong headwind stopped us from riding the 40 km. We decided to camp in the middle of the salar. The wind didn't stop the whole night. Sunset was amazing.

Early the next morning.

Salar Coipasa is very white in comparison to Salar de Uyuni.

Our GPS helped us to navigate.

Only us on the Salar.

After we arrived in land again. We had to push our bikes though the sand until we finally arrived at Liica.

We tried to ride with closed eyes.

Only 10 km after Liica we saw white again.

Salar de Uyuni.

We love the sunset on the salar. Its unique.

Silence.

One more night on the Salar. Together with Lynsey and Johannes we eat Spaghetti with salar salt.

Voila. All cycling tourists from all over the world. (Canada, UK, Norway, Germany)

On Island Inkahuasi we met lots of friends.

Last bit on the Salar de Uyuni

We left the salar and rode again on dirt roads towards San Juan.

Tags: d, f, Bolivia, 11-2014

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Comments: 1

#1
Giorgio (Friday, 18 August 2023 22:38)

Hi, I 'm looking for a good track (gpx file...) for the journey from Colchane to Llica, through the Salar de Coipasa.
Can you help me? Any further suggestion is very appreciated

Thanks,
Giorgio (pdughera@gmail.com)