Uyuni eSIM
In Uyuni you connect to Entel or Tigo, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 27 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Entel and Tigo
- Typical speed in Bolivia
- 27 Mbps typical, 6 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Uyuni
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $18.89 | $18.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $14.96 | $44.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $12.98 | $64.89 |
How Bolivia compares across South America
- Regional typical speed
- 33.5 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Entel, Tigo
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Venezuela, 28.2 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Guyana, 22 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 2: La Paz, Uyuni
Landing at Joya Andina International Airport (UYU)
- Airport
- UYU / SLUY
Getting into Uyuni
- Uyuni railway junction: lines to Oruro and La Paz, Calama (Chile), Potosi and Villazon
- Road links to Oruro and La Paz, Sucre, Villazon (Argentine border) and Ollague (Chilean border)
- Expreso del Sur Ferrobús from Oruro to Uyuni, about 413 minutes
Worth knowing about Uyuni
- Uyuni is a major railway junction where four lines converge: towards Oruro and La Paz, towards Calama in Chile, towards Potosi, and towards Villazon on the Argentine border.
- The town lies at 3,700 m on the edge of the Altiplano and its airport at 3,665 m, so arrivals are at high altitude from the moment they land.
- Joya Andina Airport only opened in 2011 and has a single 4,000 m asphalt runway; passenger numbers were around 43,000 in 2023.
- Uyuni doubles as a customs and immigration checkpoint for cross-border traffic with Chile and Argentina.
- Ferroviaria Andina's Expreso del Sur Ferrobús reaches Uyuni on a Monday night run from Oruro, leaving at 21:30 and pulling in at 04:23 after 6 hours 53 minutes.
- Heading south, the train waits 97 minutes in Uyuni, leaves at 06:00 on Tuesday for Atocha and Tupiza, and reaches Villazón on the Argentine border at 16:30.
- Northbound, the Ferrobús calls at Uyuni in the early hours of Friday, leaving at 01:00 after a 57 minute stop and arriving in Oruro at 07:55.
- Down the line, Atocha sits at 3,658 m and Tupiza at 2,850 m, so travelling south from Uyuni by train drops you roughly 850 m in altitude.
- Joya Andina airport is run by NAABOL, the state airport operator, which calls it key to tourism on the salt flat and provides free internet inside its airports.
- Ferroviaria Andina puts the Salar de Uyuni at more than 10,000 km² and its visitors at over 200,000 a year. In town, the Train Cemetery and the Railway Museum tell the story of Bolivia's railways.
- Isla Incahuasi and the salt hotels are the classic stops on the salt flat, according to NAABOL.
- Uyuni is part of the White Deserts and Coloured Lagoons route, together with the Eduardo Avaroa reserve in Sud Lípez province on the borders with Chile and Argentina. Laguna Colorada and Uturuncu volcano, 6,020 m, are among its landmarks.
- Most of the reserve's visitors come from abroad, and SERNAP charges them more to enter: it has quoted Bs 150 for foreign tourists against Bs 30 for Bolivians.
Sources for this page
Other cities in Bolivia we cover
- La Paz
- 462 km from Uyuni, nearest airport LPB