Arrival in Salta. Transfer to hostel or hotel if WITH booked transfers choice. Check in at selected accommodation. Free day
Free day in Salta to visit this colonial city of ancient heritage. At night try a dinner at a local "Peña"
Try a local "Peña"
Breakfast. At 7.00 am. Salt Flats + Purmamarca Day Tour:
You will travel in the same route as the famous Train to the Clouds, zigzagging on lonely roads between the blue sky and the Puna. On your way, you will visit magnificent ruins, scattered houses, small villages and amazing landscapes. Departure from Salta will be at 7 am and you will quickly reach the small town of Campo Quijano and later, the impressive Quebrada del Toro. Soon you will leave all signs of vegetation as you enter the realms of the solitary Puna. In Santa Rosa de Tastil, a pre-Inca city of the XIII century, you will do a short archeological hiking. Later, you will reach San Antonio de los Cobres, a small miner´s town rich in tradition and the Train to the Clouds final destination.
Further ahead, a desert plateau will take you to the surreal landscape of the salt flats, where you stop again to walk around and enjoy the contrasts.
In the afternoon, you will return through the overwhelming Lipan Mountains and arrive at the Seven-color Hill in Purmamarca, a landmark on its own. You will overnight in this village suspended in time.
Breakfast. Humahuaca Full Day Tour:
The Humahuaca Gorge is a long narrow and arid valley surrounded by beautiful and colorful mountains. In addition to its natural beauty, this gorge follows the line of a major cultural route, the Camino Inca, offering substantial evidence of its use as a major trade route over the past 10,000 years. It features visible traces of prehistoric hunter-gatherer communities, of the Inca Empire (15th to 16th centuries) and of the fight for independence in the 19th and 20th centuries.
During the tour we visit the villages of Purmamarca and the Seven color hill, Tilcara, Uquia and Humahuaca. Arrival to Salta at 7 – 8 pm. Drop off at accommodation and check in for your last night in Salta
Breakfast, check out and transfer to Airport if WITH transfer option chosen. End of trip
