Maybe you have heard or read articles talking about experiences related about the accommodation in the Uyuni Salt Flats and the Colored Lagoons tour, "there are not too many alternatives for accommodation" or that the re are some basic shelters around the Salt Flat in San Juan, Puerto Chuvica, Aguaquiza and Coquesa and also others close to the Avaroa Reserve in Huayllajara and Quetena. But if you require more comfortable accommodation the Tayka hotels are a great alternative.
The Tayka Hotel Network complies three lodges in the indigenous communities of Tahua (“Hotel de Sal”), San Pedro de Quemes (“Hotel de Piedra”) and Soniquera (“Hotel del Desierto”) along the Salar and the Siloli Lipez Desert, in the Department of Potosí, which are wonderful natural attractions near the Bolivian-Chilean border in Hito Cajones. The hotels are strategically located to make a complete circuit in the area.
The hotels are located in an altitude range between 3700 masl and 4500 masl, weather is generally cold.
The rooms in all the hotels have a private bathroom, hot water, heating and the hotels have a very good restaurant served by locals.
"HOTEL DE SAL" (SALT HOTEL)
In the northern part of the Salar de Uyuni, at the foot of the Tunupa Volcano, is the “Salt Hotel”, a rustic hotel mostly built with blocks of salt.
Very close to this hotel, there are the local museums of Chantani and Coquesa. After visiting the museum of Coquesa you can´t miss a hike to the Tunupa Volcano viewpoint or if you are in shape, you can program in advance making a trek to the volcano crater!.
"HOTEL DE PIEDRA" (STONE HOTEL)
At the southwest of the Salt Flats the “Hotel de Piedra” of San Pedro de Quemes is located, very close to the "Pueblo Quemado" with a lot of history about the war between Bolivia and Chile, where Bolivia lost the access to the Pacific Ocean.
HOTEL DEL DESIERTO (DESERT HOTEL)
And on the edge of the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Reserve, in the middle of the Siloli Desert, is one of the most exotic hotels in Bolivia, the “Hotel del Desierto”, in the middle of nowhere” with a magnificent landscape.
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