Tunupa — Local services in Salinas de Garcí Mendoza

A MUST if you like hiking! Going to top takes about 8h on average and you have to take a local guide, which costs 500 Bolivianos (supporting the local community). Our guide (Hubet) was amazing: he adjusted the pace exactly to our needs, explained us loads about the vegetation and local people, and really made an effort to speak slowly and clearly so we could understand his Spanish. The views throughout the hike, and particularly from the top are stunning! It's around 1200 meters of ascent, but the altitude makes it much harder than that amount if ascent in the Alps or other lower mounains (the top...

All in all, a good experience. In-active volcano craters are 'cool' enough, but if you have seen one, you've seen them all. The curious thing about this crater, is that it is full of black peppercorns. I think the crater gets overlooked because of it's proximity to the salt flats. My idea is to combine some salt from the flats with pepper from the volcano. New age style packaging and advertising - volcanic pepper & pre-historic salt. I will make a fortune selling to the natural food fanatics. Now, if I can just get 'Salt-n-Pepa' to sing a...

Une expérience extraordinaire. Grimper au sommet de çà fabuleux volcan, Ce lever au milieu de la nuit pour commencer l’ascension de ce sommet entouré d’un milliards d étoiles gravir petit à petit voir la lune se coucher et le soleil commencé à briller. Sentir l aire pur d’une altitude de 5400 mètres et surtout pouvoir contempler Le merveilleux salar de Uyuni à 5400 m la vue est incroyable Vraiment si vous envisager un jour de faire un trek dans la désert de sel demander à votre agence de grimper au sommet de ce volcan Vous aller payer un peu plus cher vu que ça rallonge le trek de un jour mais ça vaut la peine. Pour les marcheurs occasionnels c’est tout à fait faisable mais attention au...