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I see most of posts are about tour guides from San Pedro de Acatama to Uyuni but I'm interested in the opposite direction.

I'm arriving in Uyuni, and going to San Pedro. I'm wondering which options do I have:

  1. a tour of 3 days in the Salar De Uyuni, ending up in San Pedro. Then another tour from San Pedro to see all the sights around (such as the Moon Valley, etc..).
  2. a longer tour from Uyuni, through the Salar De Uyuni, including the sights around San Pedro and finishing in San Pedro ? (How many days ?)

Are both options available? What are good tour operators, and how can I buy a package? Just walking around in Uyuni ?

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I also started in Uyuni, on a standard three day tour you spend the first day on the salt lake, getting off it in the evening, then going further south the second day visiting various lakes and rock formations, the third day you are going back to Uyuni.

If you want to go to San Pedro you are dropped off at the border to Chile in the morning of the third day, from there you take a bus down to San Pedro. I don't think any of the Uyuni based 4x4s go into Chile.

If you take a four or five day tour from Uyuni, you may spend more time on the salt flats.

In San Pedro you have many options to take tours within Chile.

I don't know this for sure but I don't think there are operators that offer both Bolivia and Chile in one package.

In Uyuni there are tons of operators, I was happy with mine but don't remember the name. Shop around a little bit to get an idea of the prices. I didn't go with the cheapest one.

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