PRICE: $6,400 USD
Deposit: $2,000 USD
A $2,000 USD deposit is required to reserve your spot for this workshop. You can also pay in full at any time. The remaining balance is due 120 days before the start of the photo tour. If the remaining balance is not paid in full by the due date, you will lose your spot.
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Tour Highlights
Atacama uyuni photography tour 10 d/9n Travel to premier destinations for South America photography tours including: La Paz, Uyuni and Atacama Regions
Get an authentic experience of adventure photography staying in ‘rustic’ hotels and overlanding by 4×4 to remote locations.
Breathe the rarified air of the highest city in the world La Paz, sitting at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level.
Photograph not only the staggering and varied landscapes of Bolivia and Chile, but the mesmerizing spectacle of the sky at night with a chance to learn astro-photography.
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Our Atacama & Uyuni photo tour will start in the city of Calama, where we will pick you up at 10:00 AM before driving to our base camp in the heart of the Atacama Desert in the renowned town of San Pedro de Atacama.
San Pedro is the epicenter of the Chilean Atacama Desert, and it’s a vibrant town with a great location near all the region’s top attractions. Our base camp during our stay in San Pedro will be the “Casa de Don Tomas,” considered one of the best hotels in town.
After presentations and our tour orientation, we will do a personal gear review to make sure everybody is familiar with their cameras and settings for the day and night sessions.
Our first photo spot will be at the “Vallecito”; a dry valley full of badlands and spectacular geological formations close to San Pedro de Atacama. Here, we will photograph the iconic Atacama “Magic Bus” and vast desert landscapes at sunset.
After the blue hour, we will take our first Milky Way session where we’ll capture the renowned night skies the Atacama Desert is famous for.
On the third day of our Atacama photography workshop, we will photograph one of the most special locations in the entire Atacama Desert: “El Valle del Arcoiris” (“The Rainbow Valley”).
This valley, located about an hour’s drive from San Pedro, is full of badlands and incredible rock formations. Textures, lines, and multicolor patterns abound in the multiple ravines and giant walls of this valley.
We will spend the evening here walking and photographing the most photogenic formations. If you have a drone, make sure you bring it here since it also offers breathtaking aerial opportunities.
However, the best time to enjoy this valley is at night when darkness and a billion stars take over, and you can enjoy unparalleled views of the sky with zero light pollution. We will photograph the Milky Way from different spots where you can capture our galaxy rising over these stunning landscapes.
On day 5, we will enjoy a change of scenery and photograph a very different area of the Chilean Altiplano.
We will start driving slowly up to the high plateau, where our first location will be the Miñique and Miscantis lagoons. These two colorful lagoons are located at the base of their respective volcanoes and are great subjects, both for landscape and bird photography.
After visiting the lagoons and doing more photo stops along the way, we will visit “Piedras Rojas” also known as “Salar de Aguas Calientes.”
This is a truly unique landscape where you can see turquoise-colored lagoons surrounded by vibrant red rocks and snow-capped volcanoes in the background. There are endless compositions here, so we’ll take as much time as we need to compose and photograph under different light conditions.
This is a long day considering the driving distance, so the night shoot will depend on the weather conditions and how our group feels. If we decide to do a night session, it’ll be near Piedras Rojas, where the skies are incredibly dark and beautiful.
On the 6th day of our Atacama & Uyuni Photo Tour, we’ll move to a new region and country in the Altiplano: Bolivia.
In the morning, we will cross the border to meet our Bolivian guides.For this leg of the tour, we’ll travel in off-road vehicles with 4WD and photograph all the landmarks of this fascinating side of the Altiplano!
Our first stop will be the Laguna Blanca and Laguna Verde, two beautiful lagoons with the prominent Licancabur Volcano in the background. We will visit Laguna Verde around noon when the lighting is best to see the vibrant green colors for which this lagoon is famous.
After that, our next stop will be the “Aguas Termales de Polques,” a series of hot springs located in a remote area of the Altiplano. Here we’ll have lunch and enjoy a soak in the hot springs while we enjoy the landscapes and wildlife of the Altiplano.
In the evening, we will arrive at our destination in one of the most special places of the trip: Laguna Colorada! This is one of the most unique lakes in the world, with an intense color that comes from the red sediments and pigmentation of the algae found in the shallow waters.
Once we check into our accommodation and have dinner, we will do a night session where we’ll capture the Milky Way arch expanding across the lagoon.
On the second day of our Bolivia photo tour, we’ll begin with a visit to a new section of Laguna Colorada in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve.
This area is the perfect place to see the vibrant red colors of the lagoon when the morning sun illuminates the water. Here, we’ll enjoy a magical scene of the red lagoon with thousands of flamingos and snow-capped mountains in the background.
We’ll visit Laguna Colorada at a prime time to see flamingos after the rainy season. All three types of flamingos: Andino, James, and Chileno, can be found in the lagoon. We will take a short walk across the lagoon to photograph the different flamingos interspersed with the natural reserve’s dramatic colors and landscapes.
After our morning shoot, we will continue driving across the Altiplano and photographing different highlights, such as the rock formations around the “Arbol de Piedra” (“Stone Tree”) in the Dalí-esque desert. We’ll also photograph the “Sol de Mañana Geyser,” a spectacular geothermal area with mud pools and small geysers that looks like an oasis of colors in the middle of the desert.
Our next stop will be at Laguna Hedionda, where we’ll have lunch with a privileged view of this lagoon full of spectacular landscapes and migratory birds and flamingos. Not far from there, we will photograph the last lagoon, Laguna Cañapa, another gem for landscape and wildlife photography.
In the evening, we’ll arrive at our destination in Uyuni, where we will stay at one of the renowned salt hotels for the next couple of days. Our first night session will be at the train cemetery, an abandoned train graveyard on the outskirts of town with old mining trains that have become one of the area’s top landmarks.
Staying away from the light pollution of town, we’ll do an astrophotography session with the train skeletons.
On day 8, we’ll start our Uyuni photo tour by visiting some of the most remote areas in the largest salt flats in the world.
Salar de Uyuni stretches more than 4,000 square miles and was formed by prehistoric lakes that evaporated thousands of years ago. During the rainy season, Uyuni gets flooded with a thin layer of water that transforms the landscape into an otherworldly location with stunning reflections.
The flooding and accessible areas in the dry lake change from year to year depending on the rain, but the beginning of April is the only time of year when it’s possible to photograph both the flooded salt flats and the interior of Uyuni, which is inaccessible during the rainy season.
On our first day in Uyuni, and as long as driving conditions allow, we will visit Uyuni’s Coral islands, a series of isolated pieces of land in the middle of this giant playa. Here, you can photograph a surreal landscape where the rocks and giant cacti surround the intense white salt flats.
Our main landmark will be Isla Incahuasi, one of the most spectacular islands where there is a huge density of giant cacti that can reach up to 30 feet and live more than 1,000 years. Once there, we’ll spend most of our time exploring this little island and capturing impressive landscapes from a higher elevation.
If conditions allow, we will have the opportunity to spend a night of optional camping near the island. This is a unique chance not offered by other tour companies that will allow us to photograph the darkest area in the Uyuni salt flats, in a location where light pollution doesn’t exist. The completely flat landscape is the ideal place to capture nightscapes, as the Milky Way is rarely photographed here.
We will start day 9 by visiting some of the main landmarks of Uyuni, such as the Dakar Monument, the world flags, and the Salt Museum, which is full of impressive salt sculptures.
We will also scout for locations where we can see the sought-after Uyuni reflections. These reflections make Uyuni stand out from other salt flats, especially during this time of year.
Here, we will photograph the sunset and get back to town before preparing for a very special night. Our plan is to photograph a once in a lifetime experience when the stars and the Milky Way appear in the sky as well as the reflection of the salt flat at your feet.
We will do a long session here photographing the arch, single images, and shots with light painting using our 4WD cars and subjects to give a sense of scale. Expect a night of astrophotography for the books!
On the last day of our Atacama & Bolivia photo adventure, we will drive to La Paz, stopping for different photo opportunities along the way.
Once in La Paz, we will do a farewell group dinner and spend our last night there. Feel free to stay here and spend more time visiting the capital of Bolivia. Otherwise, you should book your flight for the next day. Most international flights depart in the morning.
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