Uyuni: Tours, Culture and History

Uyuni is a starting point for organised tours and also a place with a museum nearby. Tours to the Salar, Isla Incahuasi, the Lagunas de Colores and the Cementerio de Trenes on the outskirts of the city are organised from Uyuni. Nearby, the Museo Minero Huanchaca Pulacayo in Pulacayo adds a cultural point of interest. If you are looking for a holiday apartment, you can first decide whether tours from Uyuni or the nearby museum are more important to your choice of location.

Tours from Uyuni

These four destinations give your plans some concrete points of reference. First consider which of them are a priority for your trip; the tours are organised from Uyuni. The Cementerio de Trenes is on the outskirts of the city, adding another point of reference to this destination. If organised tours are part of your plans, you can choose Uyuni as your preferred starting point and base your holiday-apartment search on that.

Train station and getting your bearings

Uyuni train station is in Uyuni, Potosí. Together with the Cementerio de Trenes on the outskirts, it provides a concrete comparison of locations: a train station in Uyuni and a tour destination on the edge of the city. If you are organising your trip geographically, these two points of reference can help distinguish the town centre from the outskirts. The train station is a separate point of reference; the organised tours start from Uyuni.

Pulacayo and the Museo Minero

Pulacayo is 22 kilometres from Uyuni, in Antonio Quijarro Province in the Department of Potosí. This nearby town offers a distinct museum-related point of interest: the Museo Minero Huanchaca Pulacayo is housed in the former administrative building, Casa Gerencia, of Compañía Huanchaca de Bolivia. The museum therefore offers a specific subject to visit in a building that formerly served as the company’s administrative headquarters. In May 2026, COMIBOL reported that the museum is open to the general public.

If you are interested in the museum as well as the tour destinations, you can consider Pulacayo as a nearby addition to your plans for Uyuni. A museum visit offers a different focus from the tours organised from Uyuni: here, the museum and its former administrative building take centre stage. When choosing where to stay, you can weigh up whether to focus mainly on the tour destinations or also include the nearby cultural point of interest.

Another point of interest in the wider Potosí area

The wider travel destination of Potosí also offers another specific tourist attraction. On 2 April 2026, SERNAP announced the opening of the extension to the Ciudad de Itas tourist trail in Parque Nacional Torotoro, as well as the certification of 30 new assistant guides. This dated notice adds a regional point of reference in Torotoro to the information about Uyuni. It may be of interest if you are considering not only Uyuni itself but also the wider travel destination of Potosí.

Choosing a base for your holiday-apartment search

A simple approach to finding a holiday apartment is to first decide whether Uyuni is a suitable base for the organised tours that interest you. Then you can decide whether Pulacayo and its museum are an additional focus for your plans. Uyuni train station is another point of reference within the city, while the Cementerio de Trenes is on the outskirts. If you want to broaden your focus to the wider travel destination of Potosí, also consider the dated notice from Torotoro.

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