Drive in Kingdom of lagoons

From the Arbol de Piedra rock formation, the lagoons continue for more than fifty kilometers through the volcanic Siloli Desert. It is a relatively boring journey by local conditions. The only short break is in the area of rock gardens overgrown with green llareta and inhabited by Altiplanian „rabbits“ Vizcachas. At one point, the road approaches up to three kilometers to the Chilean border and ascends almost 4,700 meters above sea level. Then the road slowly descends. The first of the large lagoons – Ramaditas is usually omitted because it lies more than a kilometer away from the roads in the desert. The second Pujilo is tiny again and also off the route. Then you will finally come to a beautiful view of the Honda lagoon (4,120 m above sea level)

It is perfect to get off here, walk down to the lagoon and walk about a kilometer along the western shore of the lagoon to its northern end, where the jeep moves to in the meantime.

Walk along the bank of the lagoon is very pleasant. Border volcano of Cerro Arral (5688m asl) begins to peep out on the horizon.

The nature was really creative here and the lagoon is really interesting in several places. The walk along the shore takes about 30–40 minutes and then you go a while to lagoon of Hedionda.
 

Laguna Hedionda (stinking) has perhaps even more interesting surroundings and lots of flamingos usually stay here. On the horizon you can see a volcano Caňapa with lightly sugared tip.

Traditional bolivian Altiplano = volcano is reflected in a lagoon with flamingos.

Horizon is dominated by interesting volcano Cerro Araral (5688 m asl).

Watching flamingos is one of the greatest experiences of this part of Salar tour.

With a little luck you can meet beautiful vicunas on the banks of the lagoons.

Less than ten kilometers is the third half-hour stop is lagoon Caňapa. You can easily see in this photo how it looks like in Salar tour – there are a few people around the official stops and nobody a little farther.

There is a beautiful view of the long ridge of majestic volcano from the lagoon.

You can see the lagoon Caňapa at its best from the outlook. Far in the background is seen a volcanoAraral

Laguna is changing also during the year – in mid-January, that means during bolivian summer, is Caňapa lagoon full of flamingos and in winter it is practically empty and partially frozen /see the other photos/.

Directly above the lagoon rises another from a series of local volcanoes. From here you are waiting for onward journey in the direction of the majestic volcano smoldering Ollague.