Tours in Bolivia

8 hours – 10 hoursfrom AUD $156

Salar de Uyuni Tour 1 day with Sunset

When Ngaio from the Global Hobo crew rolled out to Salar de Uyuni for the sunset tour, we found ourselves on one of Earth's strangest salt flats — a 10,000-square-kilometre expanse that transforms into a mirror during the rainy season, bouncing sky back at you in surreal perfection. You're bundled into a 4x4 with a bilingual guide, fed properly, and ferried across otherworldly terrain for nine hours of landscape that genuinely breaks your brain. It's popular with the Instagram crowd, but the sheer scale and weirdness of the place swallows any self-consciousness.

Adelante Mujer Bolivian Cooking Workshops

When Delphine from the crew signed up for Adelante Mujer in Cochabamba, she walked into a three-hour cooking class that's genuinely about more than just food. You learn to cook a proper three-course Bolivian meal — potatoes peeled knife-style, traditional recipes passed down through generations — from local women trained by the workshop. These guides have lived through hardship and vulnerability; what you're paying for goes straight to supporting them and their families. It's Cochabamba's gastronomical heart, and the whole thing reads like a mate's grandmother teaching you her kitchen secrets, except there's cocktails involved and you actually get to eat what you've made.

Salar de Uyuni tours 1 day

When Maz from the crew did the Salar de Uyuni day tour, we found ourselves bouncing across one of Earth's strangest landscapes—a salt flat so vast and blank it scrambles your sense of direction. You're out here for 8–10 hours in a 4x4, rattling past flamingo lagoons, geysers, and (depending on season) Inca Huasi Island, a rocky knoll thick with giant cacti. It's the kind of place where the horizon vanishes and your phone's GPS throws a fit. The flat itself is surreal: perfectly white, perfectly still, and you're basically the only moving thing for kilometres. Your guide drives and narrates in Spanish, stops for lunch and water, and covers entrance fees to most spots—though toilets cost a few quid extra.

Private Tasting of Award Winning Bolivian Wines

★ 5.0 (28)

🍜 Food & Cooking

9 hours – 11 hoursfrom AUD $137

Private Tasting of Award Winning Bolivian Wines

When Maz from the crew rocked up to this private tasting in Bolivia, we weren't expecting much—but four award-winning high-altitude wines paired with proper charcuterie and cheese from a legit chef mate? That's the sort of thing that changes your weekend. You'll taste your way through some seriously good Bolivian bottles, the kind you'd struggle to find by the glass anywhere else, building to one of the country's standout Tanants. Two hours, intimate setting, no tourists elbowing for space. The altitude does weird things to wine (and you), but that's half the point.

Bike Down the Road of Death

When Saskia from the crew took on Bolivia's infamous Death Road, she dropped 3,500 metres in a single morning — pedalling from the high Andes through misty cloud forest and down to the rainforest below. The ride careers past waterfalls, along cliffsides carved into rock, and through natural tunnels carved by centuries of erosion. You're kitted out with a solid bike, full protective gear, and guides who know every hairpin. The whole thing takes 9–11 hours with a lodge stop at the end where you can shower off and sit by the pool. It's the kind of ride that feels properly gnarly but stays on the right side of reckless.

Ventanani Glacier Hike, Cordillera Real, Private Tour from La Paz

★ 5.0 (24)

Ventanani Glacier Hike, Cordillera Real, Private Tour from La Paz

When Saskia from the Global Hobo crew did this private glacier hike in Bolivia's Cordillera Real, she found herself almost alone on the high Andes. You're collected from La Paz at 6 AM, driven 2.5 hours into serious mountain terrain, then hiked 9 km across three alpine lakes to Ventanani Glacier at 5,010m. It's 11 hours door-to-door, moderate difficulty, and capped at just three people per trip — the opposite of the crowded peak-bagging circus you'll find elsewhere. The lakes are genuinely pristine, the guide knows the terrain well, and you get photos without having to fiddle with a camera on your own.

11 hoursfrom AUD $263

★ 5.0 (19)

🛕 Culture & History

Discovering the Ajayu/Soul of La Paz

When Tomás from the crew did this five-hour La Paz tour, he skipped the guidebook tedium entirely. You'll kick off with a three-course meal to get acquainted, then cable-car up to El Alto for views that'll make your jaw drop. From there it's down into the colonial guts of the city — witches market, Jaén street, the main square — with Tomás weaving stories about what actually shaped the place and its people. You'll hunt down proper high-altitude coffee in a spot only locals know, catch the geometry of 19th-century buildings, and finish with Illimani mountain looming over everything like a silent god.

3-Day Private Tour of Uyuni Salt Flats and Colored Lagoons Roundtrip from Uyuni

When Delphine from the Global Hobo crew did this three-day private tour, she got the full salt-flat experience without the backpacker-van crush. You're picked up from your Uyuni base and driven deep into the Salar de Uyuni in a proper 4X4, exploring the world's largest salt flat—a genuinely surreal expanse of white that plays tricks on your camera and sense of scale. The route swings past an abandoned train graveyard, Incahuasi Island's towering cacti, the Thunupa Volcano, and finishes in the Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve where the lagoons shift from red to green. Three days, two nights in TAYKA Hotels, all meals thrown in. It's the kind of landscape that stops you talking.

3 daysfrom AUD $2760

Private Uyuni Salt Flats Full-Day Circuit from Uyuni

★ 5.0 (18)

1h 40m – 2h 20mfrom AUD $48

Private Uyuni Salt Flats Full-Day Circuit from Uyuni

When Maz from the crew did the private Uyuni Salt Flats circuit, we got the whole surreal expanse to ourselves — 8 hours of blinding white horizon, mirror-flat reflections, and that peculiar emptiness that makes Bolivia's most famous feature feel almost alien. The salt flats sit at 3,656 metres in a remote corner of south-western Bolivia, drawing everyone from families to solo wanderers. It's barren, brilliant, and genuinely otherworldly. The day wraps with a sunset toast while you're stood in the middle of nothing but salt.

Learn Bolivian Cuisine/Cooking Class

When Maz from the crew signed up for this Bolivian cooking class, we reckoned it'd be the smartest way to clock a culture without the tourist theatre. Four hours in a kitchen prepping traditional dishes beats any museum visit — you're learning flavour combinations, technique, the reasoning behind each ingredient, and honestly, how ordinary Bolivians actually cook at home. The class walks you through the foundations of the cuisine: what grows here, what matters, how it all comes together on a plate. By the end you've cooked and eaten a proper meal you made yourself.

Shared Full Day Tour Charquini Lagoon and Hiking

When Tomás from the crew tackled the Charquini Lagoon hike, we found ourselves on one of Bolivia's proper alpine stunners — an 8.5-hour push into high-altitude terrain where turquoise and emerald waters sit surrounded by raw, treeless landscape. This isn't a casual stroll; it's a genuine mountain hike that rewards the effort with views that stick with you. You'll climb at altitude, work your legs, and come away buzzing from the physical challenge. The shared tour format means you're grouped with other hikers, which adds to the camaraderie on the trail.

Uyuni Salt Flats and Lagoons, 3 day semi-private tour

When Ngaio from the crew tackled the Uyuni Salt Flats, it was the kind of landscape that makes your brain feel small — 10,000 square kilometres of blinding white salt, mirror-flat lagoons reflecting the Andes, and flamingos picking through mineral-rich waters. This semi-private 3-day loop runs from Uyuni town with just 4 people per vehicle, moving through high-altitude Bolivia at a pace that lets the scenery actually sink in. You're driving across otherworldly terrain, staying in basic but solid hotels, and eating simple meals — it's more about the raw landscape than creature comforts.

Private 3 Days tour Uyuni Salt Flats and Colorful Lagoons from Uyuni

When Delphine from the crew tackled this 3-day private tour, she crossed nearly 12,000 square kilometres of Bolivia's most alien landscape — the Salar de Uyuni salt flats and the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve's coloured lagoons. The salt desert shifts dramatically with the season: in the dry months (May–October), hard-packed white polygons stretch to the horizon like a geometric fever dream; in the wet season (November–March), the flats flood into a mirror that swallows the sky. It's a remote, high-altitude slog through some of South America's most surreal terrain, and you'll need decent fitness to handle it.

2-Days Uyuni Salt Flats including Laguna Colorada

When Ngaio from the crew tackled this 2-day sprint through the Uyuni Salt Flats, we found a tightly packed alternative to the standard 3-day grind. You get the main hits: the vast white expanse of Salar de Uyuni, Incahuasi Island with its towering cacti, and the moody high-altitude lagoons of the Bolivian Altiplano. The landscape here is genuinely alien—volcanic peaks, mirror-like salt plains, and technicolour water that feels less real the longer you stare. Private 4WD transport, bilingual guides, and meals included make it relatively painless, though the pace is relentless and altitude hits hard.

Uyuni Salt Flats & Colored Lagoons – 3-Day Journey

When Ngaio from the crew signed up for this 3-day Uyuni Salt Flats and Colored Lagoons tour, we knew we were chasing one of South America's genuinely jaw-dropping landscapes. You're crossing nearly 12,000 square kilometres of otherworldly terrain — salt flats, geysers, flamingo-dotted lagoons, and volcanic ridges all stacked into the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Reserve on the Bolivian altiplano. In the dry season (May–October) you get those famous geometric salt polygons; in the wet season the flats turn into a mirror reflecting the sky. It's high altitude, it's remote, and it's absolutely worth the trek.

Day tour Uyuni salt flats

When Finn from the crew tackled the Salar de Uyuni day tour, we rolled out across Bolivia's most surreal landscape — a 10,000-square-kilometre expanse of blinding white salt crust that genuinely looks like another planet. You're bouncing across the flats in a private car with a Spanish-speaking guide, spotting flamingos and vicuñas dotted across the terrain, stopping for lunch mid-nowhere, and timing it to catch the sunset turn the salt golden before heading back. It's 8 hours of pure desert theatre, and the remoteness is the whole point — there's barely another soul out there.

Smells like La Paz spirit: Walking & artistic city tour

When Ngaio from the Global Hobo crew did this walking tour in La Paz, we got the full street-art education without the pretence. Your guide walks you through the city's graffiti, murals, and pop-art tributes to rock legends and Latin American icons, mixing Indigenous aesthetics with raw socio-political commentary. It's a two-hour wander through neighbourhoods most tourists skip, reading the walls like a open-air gallery that actually says something about Bolivia's present. You'll leave with a small gift tied to the theme, though don't expect curated Instagram moments—this is real La Paz speaking.

3-Day Climbing Huayna Potosi from La Paz

★ 5.0 (10)

🏔 Adventure & Sports

9 hours – 10 hoursfrom AUD $87

3-Day Climbing Huayna Potosi from La Paz

When Delphine from the crew signed up for Huayna Potosí, she knew she was in for a proper test — 6,008m of Bolivian altitude that doesn't mess around. This three-day climb takes you from La Paz into the Cordillera Real, with nights in mountain hostels at base camp and high camp, meals sorted throughout, and all the technical gear provided (except a few personal layers you'll need to bring). It's a serious mountaineering experience for climbers with genuine fitness and no health red flags, but the payoff is standing on a genuine 6,000m peak with views that justify the slog.

Salar de Uyuni Tour 1 Day + Lunch Reflections Sunset

When Delphine from our Global Hobo crew tackled the Salar de Uyuni in the rainy season, she stepped into something genuinely strange — a 10,000-square-kilometre salt flat that turns into a mirror reflecting sky so perfectly you lose track of where ground ends and air begins. This 9–10 hour day trip whisks you across Bolivia's high-altitude plateau in a 4x4, with a bilingual guide, packed lunch, and time to chase those head-melting perspective shots that made this place Instagram famous. It's barren, otherworldly, and absolutely not a hike — you're mostly sat in the vehicle, but the landscape does most of the talking.

Amazon Expedition Pink Dolphins Caimans and Jungle Life Bolivia

★ 5.0 (9)

Amazon Expedition Pink Dolphins Caimans and Jungle Life Bolivia

When Maz from the crew boarded El Tambaqui for a 2-day Amazon run in Bolivia, the vibe shifted instantly — boutique riverboat, serious guides, and actual jungle depth rather than zoo-like posturing. You're navigating narrow Bolivian waterways spotting pink dolphins, caimans, and howler monkeys while walking proper jungle trails between meals that lean towards decent cooking rather than the typical lodge slop. The river itself feels genuinely remote despite the creature comforts, and the crew takes time with local communities instead of the parachute-in-and-out routine. Two days gives you enough rhythm to settle into the rhythm without burning out.

Full Guided Uyuni Salt Flat Tour

When Finn from the crew tackled the Uyuni Salt Flats, we kicked off at dawn at the Train Cemetery — rusted locomotives scattered like toys across the white expanse — then rolled through Colchani to watch artisans hand-craft salt blocks. The landscape strips you bare: 10,834 square kilometres of blinding white that plays tricks on perspective and camera sensors alike. We hit the Dakar monument, the Playa Blanca Salt Hotel (yes, it's made of salt), Flag Plaza, and clambered up Incahuasi Island for 360° views before catching sunset over the flats. Ten hours in a shared 4x4, max six per vehicle, with a Spanish-speaking guide steering through one of Earth's most disorienting and photogenic wastelands.

10 hoursfrom AUD $110

3 Days Uyuni Salt Flats and Andean Lagoons Tour

★ 5.0 (9)

2h 30m – 3 hoursfrom AUD $59

3 Days Uyuni Salt Flats and Andean Lagoons Tour

When Roo from the Global Hobo crew signed up for this three-day push across Bolivia's salt flats and high-altitude lagoons, she knew she was in for something properly wild. You're bundled into a 4×4 with five other travellers, rattling from the otherworldly expanses of Salar de Uyuni through abandoned train graveyards, across mirror-like salt pans, and up to some genuinely surreal turquoise and crimson lagoons dotted along the Andes. You'll kip in basic salt-block hostels (think raw, authentic, no frills) and share meals with your crew. It's three days of high-altitude grit, stunning geology, and the kind of raw landscape that makes you feel properly small.

La Paz Political Tour : History, Politics & Culture

When Priya from the crew did this La Paz political tour, she got what few city walks deliver: a proper grounding in why Bolivia actually matters. Over 2.5–3 hours, a local Bolivian guide steers you through the city's recent upheavals—gas nationalisation, lithium, indigenous constitutional reform, even McDonald's going bust here—while the cable cars become your moving classroom. You're not being lectured at; you're invited to think critically about a country that's consistently refused to follow the regional script. It's the kind of tour that makes you feel less like a tourist and more like you've had a real conversation with someone who knows their home.

★ 5.0 (8)

6 hours – 7 hoursfrom AUD $92

Salar de Uyuni Tour more sunset

When Priya from the crew headed out to Salar de Uyuni, she found herself standing on the world's largest salt flat at golden hour—basically a massive white expanse that doubles as a mirror to the sky. This 8.5-hour tour sweeps you across the otherworldly landscape, stopping for the kind of perspective shots that actually look ridiculous (you standing tiny against endless white). The crew includes a Spanish-speaking driver and a packed lunch, though the vibe is more working tour than luxury jaunt. It's the sort of place that genuinely does something to your brain; the flatness and light play tricks on scale and distance.

Huayna Potosi Climbing Experience

When Roo from the Global Hobo crew tackled Huayna Potosi, Bolivia's 6,088-metre peak, they discovered a proper three-day climbing mission that doesn't require prior experience—just genuine fitness and a willingness to push. The mountain looms over La Paz, and the climb mixes high-altitude trekking with technical rock and ice work. You'll be climbing alongside a mix of keen amateurs and seasoned mountaineers, all guided by professionals who know these slopes well. It's raw, exhausting, and genuinely rewarding.

Private, Animas and Moon valley + Lagoon viewpoint - Indigenous

When Delphine from the crew did this private tour outside La Paz, she spent a full morning and early afternoon hiking through three distinct landscapes with an Aymara guide who actually knew the stories behind them. You start in Valle de las Ánimas — a proper otherworldly slot canyon with towering rock formations and the option to join a Pachamama gratitude ceremony if that's your vibe. Then it's up to Uni Viewpoint for the panoramic money shot (Illimani mountain included), a traditional salteña snack break, and finally Moon Valley's lunar-looking erosion formations. The whole thing's private, flexible, and hooked around actual Indigenous perspectives rather than the tourist-mill version.

★ 5.0 (7)

3 Days Salar de Uyuni

When Priya from the Global Hobo crew signed up for this three-day salt flat expedition, she knew she was in for the kind of trip that rewires your sense of scale. You'll spend 72 hours bouncing across Bolivia's high-altitude desert in a proper 4x4, stopping at abandoned train graveyards, the otherworldly Salar de Uyuni itself, and a cactus-studded island in the middle of nowhere. It's based out of Uyuni town, draws a mix of backpackers and tour groups, and requires you to be reasonably fit — the altitude alone sorts the casual wanderers from the committed.

3 daysfrom AUD $603

★ 5.0 (7)

1h 30m – 1h 40mfrom AUD $29

Virtual Online City Tour - La Paz

When Tomás from the crew tried this virtual La Paz tour, he found himself clicking through Google Maps from his living room whilst a guide narrated the city's stranger corners — the witches market, San Pedro Prison, colonial street architecture. It's a 90-minute armchair ramble through Bolivia's chaotic, high-altitude capital without the gasping-for-breath bit. You get PowerPoint slides, close-ups of market stalls, and anecdotes about past presidents losing the plot. Suited to folks who can't hack the 3,640-metre altitude, travellers short on time, or anyone curious to scope the city before deciding whether to actually go.

4-Day Bolivia Private Tour with English Guide from La Paz Bolivia

★ 5.0 (7)

30 min – 1h 5mfrom AUD $41

4-Day Bolivia Private Tour with English Guide from La Paz Bolivia

When Roo from the crew booked this 4-day private tour, we got the full Bolivia sprint: La Paz's mad energy, the otherworldly salt flats of Salar de Uyuni, Lake Titicaca's shores around Copacabana, and the pre-Incan ruins of Tiwanaku. You're paired with an English-speaking guide and stay in solid mid-range hotels, which beats hostel chaos when you're covering serious ground. The itinerary packs a lot — altitude shifts, long drives, the works — but if you want to see Bolivia's headline acts without mucking about with buses and dodgy hostels, this setup delivers.

Private Transfer from El Alto Airport to La Paz, Bolivia Hotels

When Saskia from the crew rolled into El Alto Airport at some godless hour and needed to get down to La Paz without faffing about, she booked a private transfer and appreciated the no-nonsense approach. It's a straightforward point-to-point service — your driver meets you at the airport (or your hotel) and ferries you into the city or back out again, any time of day or night. The drive itself runs 30 minutes to just over an hour depending on traffic and exactly where you're headed. Useful if you've got luggage, jet lag, or simply can't be bothered with shared minibuses.

8 hours – 9 hoursfrom AUD $873

Full day private tour to Salar de Uyuni

When Maz from the crew did this full-day private tour of Salar de Uyuni, we found ourselves in the world's largest salt flat — a blinding white expanse that stretches to the horizon and messes with your head in the best way. This is Bolivia's showstopper, and the private setup meant we could pace it ourselves, chase the light, and actually talk to our driver without shouting over a packed minibus. Eight to nine hours of salt, surreal landscapes, and that sunset moment where the flat becomes a mirror. Couples and families after comfort without the tour-group circus will dig this.

3 Days Private Tour in Uyuni Salt Flats and Colored Lagoon

3 Days Private Tour in Uyuni Salt Flats and Colored Lagoon

When Roo from the crew did this three-day private tour, we found ourselves rolling across 12,000 square kilometres of the world's largest salt flat in a Toyota Land Cruiser — just our guide, driver, and the surreal white expanse stretching to the horizon. You're moving through the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve, past flamingo lagoons tinted pink and green by mineral-rich water, volcanic peaks, and desert that genuinely looks like another planet. It's high-altitude, remote, and properly isolated — the kind of landscape that makes you question whether you've taken a wrong turn into a dream. Three days, two nights in a basic but comfortable lodge, all meals included.

3 daysfrom AUD $1571

Private La Paz City Tour Cable Cars, Witches' Market, Moon Valley

6 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $132

Private La Paz City Tour Cable Cars, Witches' Market, Moon Valley

When Saskia from the Global Hobo crew tackled La Paz's famous cable cars, she discovered a city that refuses to sit flat. At 3,600 metres above sea level, Bolivia's administrative capital sprawls across steep mountainsides — and the best way to grasp its layout is from the red, yellow, and green gondolas that now crisscross the urban canyons. This 8-hour private tour threads you through the historic centre, past the Witches' Market's dried llama foetuses and herbal stalls, and out to the otherworldly badlands of Moon Valley. It's a proper introduction to a place that feels like nowhere else.

Tiwanaku & Puma Punku - Private Service.

When Roo from the crew did this private tour outside La Paz, we got a solid morning with Bolivia's most significant pre-Incan ruins. Tiwanaku's a sprawling archaeological site that punches above its weight — the carved stone heads, the Gate of the Sun, and the genuinely baffling geometry of Puma Punku make you wonder how this lot pulled it off without wheels or iron tools. You'll start in the museums to get your head around the artistic style, then walk the ruins proper. It's eight hours door-to-door, pitched at a relaxed pace, and the private setup means you're not herded through with tour buses.

Complete Las Animas Valley

When Priya from the Global Hobo crew tackled Las Ánimas Valley, she found herself threading through one of Bolivia's strangest landscapes—a canyon carved by wind and time into formations that look almost otherworldly. The full day (6–8 hours) blends a medium-paced walk through the valley floor with a proper sit-down meal at a gourmet Bolivian fusion spot in the city. It's the kind of tour that gives you both the raw landscape and the refined table—no rushing, no frills, just the valley and then good food.

4 hours – 5 hoursfrom AUD $69

La Paz City - Cable Car

When Finn from the crew took the La Paz cable car network, we clocked four hours gliding above two cities at once — literally zipping between La Paz below and El Alto above on seven different lines. The whole setup feels surreal: you're suspended over a sprawling, steep-sided metropolis watching the urban landscape shift beneath your feet. Small groups mean your guide actually talks to you rather than barking at a mob, and you'll roll through the Street of the Museums with the option to duck into one if you're keen. It's the kind of ride that rewires how you see a city.

Taste La Paz – inspired by popular streaming Series

★ 5.0 (5)

🍜 Food & Cooking

7 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $404

Taste La Paz – inspired by popular streaming Series

When Tomás from the Global Hobo crew did this tour, he got the real La Paz – cable cars threading between neighbourhoods, stops at proper local joints (all included), and a guide who actually knows the place's bones. You'll swing across the city's sprawl on the iconic Mi Telefórico lines, dip into centuries of history at colonial churches and the famous Cementerio General, and taste what locals actually eat rather than what tourists expect. Four hours, packed tight, in a city that feels chaotic and alive at once.

Deluxe & Private Salar de Uyuni 1 day tour

When Delphine from the Global Hobo crew tackled Salar de Uyuni, she found this private day tour a solid way to see the world's largest salt flat without fighting crowds. You're paired with a bilingual guide and up to three other travellers, driving a 4WD across blinding white expanse to Incahuasi Island—home to 10-metre cacti that dwarf everything around them. The crew stops for lunch smack in the middle of the flats, then positions for sunset with a courtesy toast. Seven to eight hours of high-altitude exploration that reads less like a bucket-list sprint and more like an actual adventure.

4-Day 3-Night Salar de Uyuni by Air from La Paz.

★ 5.0 (5)