IMPORTANT: This is not a cycling trip. It was designed for our guests who want outdoor activities and meet wonderful places but they are not considered able to do aboard a bicycle.

• LOCATION: 24°47′24"S, 65°24′36"O
• ALTITUDE: 1.187 msnm
• POPULATION: 462.051 (indec, 2001)
• AREA CODE: A4400
• INTENDANT: Miguel Ángel Isa

Salta City was founded in 1582 by Hernando de Lerma, under orders from the Virrey Toledo (Spanish crown).
Today the city has grown considerably, but keeps intact the colonial spirit in many of its most important monuments and houses, making it the best city in Argentina which has preserved its architectural legacy. San Bernardo Convent

The city tour in Salta City consists in to go with the minibus linking historic monuments, the city centre and its environs.

Places that are known in this tour:

• The central square (July 9) with its monument to General Arenales;
• The Catedral Basílica;
• The Museum of Archaeology high Mountain (MAAM), where are the Llullaillaco mummies;
• The North Historical Museum ,  the Colonial Museum and the Fine Arts Museum;
• The Cabildo;
• The San Francisco Church;
• The San Bernardo convent;
• The Gral. Güemes monument, at the foot of the hill;
• Up the San Bernardo Hill, where they have an overview of the entire city and its environs, with optional download with the cable car;
• Monument to the Battle of Salta and  20 de Febrero Park;
• The historic building where is the Artisan market.

• DISTANCE: 100 km. aprox.
• DURATION: 4 hs aprox.
• INCLUDE: Transfers, guides and insurance.
• NOT INCLUDE:  Museum entrances.
• PRICE PER PERSON: AR$90

 IMPORTANT: This is not a cycling trip. It was designed for our guests who want outdoor activities and meet wonderful places but they are not considered able to do aboard a bicycle.

• LOCATION: 25°48′24"S, 64°58′0"O
• ALTITUDE: 2.280 msnm.
• POPULATION: 7.243 hab. (INDEC, 2001)
• POSTAL CODE: A4417
• DISTANCE FROM SALTA: 157 Km.
• TELEPHONE CODE: 03868

Cachi is a beautiful village, located northwest of the Calchaquí Valleys, rested on the eastern side of the "Nevado de Cachi", a mole of 6720 meters. and bordered by the Calchaquí river, who was born not far from there, in the tops of the "Nevado de Acay", another mole of 5950 meters above sea level.

The famous Tin Tin Line

Its name derives from a confusion that took the natives, who mistook the snowy summit of the hill with a saline. This is not so unreasonable, considering that the region abounds in salt and its summit never before achieved, or were not reported until then.

THE TRIP TO CACHI

• DISTANCE: 230 km .
• DURATION: Full Day(12 hs aprox.)
• TIMES: From 07:00 hs. to 19:00 hs. aprox .
• INCLUDE: Transportation, guides and insurance.
• NOT INCLUDE: Food and beberages.
• PRICE PER PERSON:  ar$ 220 p/p

  IMPORTANT: This is not a cycling trip. It was designed for our guests who want outdoor activities and meet wonderful places but they are not considered able to do aboard a bicycle.

• LOCATION SALT FLATS: 23°38′S, 66°05′O
• LOCATION PURMAMARCA: 23°43′60"S, 65°28′60"O
• ALTITUDE: Between 1.180 msnm and 4.010 msnm
• REGIONS: Puna, Salta Flats and Humahuaca Canyon.
• WILDLIFE: Llamas, Vicuñas (wild), Guanacos, and different birds.

This is a trip that combines two tours of longer duration. A trip to San Antonio de los Cobres, and a visit to the Quebrada de Humahuaca, knowing the village of Purmamarca and passing earlier by Salinas Grandes. Close to the Salt Flats

The landscape that runs can hardly be forgotten, the Quebrada del Toro surprised by their shapes and colors.The Salt Flats or Salinas Grandes, located mostly in Jujuy territory, and have an area of approx. 212 sq km, are ideal for experimenting with the photo camera because of its large dimensions and perspective generated by the distance to the horizon. And Purmamarca also surprised by the colors of its geography and culture.

THE TRIP

It begins doing the same route as San Antonio de los Cobres, entering by the "Quebrada del Toro" and knowing the various attractions of the area. Arrival to San Antonio.
Then begins the most inhospitable part of the journey. Passing through the Polvorilla Viaduct, is progressing on route 40, where there are almost no inhabitants, in the direction of the Salt Flats (Salinas Grandes). The magnificent view of the road shows impressive Tuzgle Volcano, with its 5.500msnm and the opportunity to photograph wild animals like the Vicuña.
In Jujuy territory the Salt Flats surprised since they are divisible for the first time. It makes a stop here to enjoy so strange landscape like to take pictures.
Then moving up the so-called Cuesta de Lipan, whose highest point is 4010 meters above sea level. It drops its endless curves to the village of Purmamarca, in the Quebrada de Humahuaca and famous for its Cerro de los 7 colores. Visit the town, and undertakes a return to Salta by the so-called Way of cornice, an alternate path that meanders by the so-called jungle pede Montana.

• DISTANCE: 600 Km. aprox.
• DURATION: Full Day(12 hs aprox.)
• TIMES: From 07:00 hs. to 19:00 hs. aprox .
• INCLUDE: Transportation, guides and insurance.
• NOT INCLUDE: Food and beberages.
• PRICE PER PERSON: ar$ 435 p/p

  IMPORTANT: This is not a cycling trip. It was designed for our guests who want outdoor activities and meet wonderful places but they are not considered able to do aboard a bicycle.

• LOCATION: See Here
• ALTITUDE: between 2000 m and 4000 m above sea level.
• EXTENSION: 155 Km. long and 13 km. width approx.
• POPULATION: 226.000 hab. approx.

The Humahuaca Canyon is a region rich in history and traditions. This area has been used as road and settlement over ten thousand years, and today still retains architectural and archaeological sites that are testimony to its long history and a population that keeps ancient customs. Beatifull Rainbow in Purmamarca
It forms a natural corridor toward North-South, which stretches across the Rio Grande basin and that communicates the Jujuy Valley with the Puna region.
In 2003, during a meeting held in Paris, has been declared by UNESCO as a "World Heritage Site", in the category "Cultural Landscape".

From north to south these are the towns who belong:

HUMAHUACA: It is the headwaters of the region and is considered the historical capital of the "Humahuaca Canyon", and the heart of the carnival.
Adobe houses, narrow streets and cobblestone, and tranquillity almost anytime, less in the carnival (February)
There is a good variety of museums that show different expressions of the region.
The Cathedral Church is a National Historical Monument and contains paints from Cuzco (Inca Capital in Peru). The Monument to Independence, or to the "Indio Calchaqui", represents the place where he fought in defense of the Nation.

UQUIA: In his church rest the remains of the historian Pedro Lozano, and kept a collection of paintings cuzqueñas called "Los Angeles arcabuceros".
Its hills preserved an invaluable paleontological treasure, to preserve remnants of the earliest mammals who emigrated from North america once joined the two continents.

HUACALERA: Town protagonist of the epic of 1841 between unitarys and federals.
His church was built in the eighteenth century, and is a gem of colonial architecture. It keeps cuzqueño paintings like "The Marriage of the Virgin" and "The Baptism of Our Lady", unique in its theme. The school, still standing, dating from 1825.
The mill colonial work of the Jesuits, and the archaeological site of Pucara Molla are the most characteristic points.
Very near the village is the monolith of the Tropic of Capricorn, which indicates the place where the imaginary line passes. Around the Monolith, December 21 at noon is casts a shadow angles.

TILCARA: Town of significant importance which has museums, craft centers, restaurants, hotels and campsites. In summertime, a great feast called "January Tilcareño."
Among its cultural attractions is the Pucara of Tilcara a building that Aboriginals Omaguaca built more than 900 years ago, on top of a mountain, from where they had vision of all the valley and access roads. Is currently rebuilt several pens and dwellings, and in the eastern side, is a necropolis with numerous funeral pyres.

MAIMARA: In this small town, the highlight is the hill known as "The Painter's Palette" reference in their shape and color. The cemetery is very interesting, with its architecture of the early twentieth century. Maimara

PURMAMARCA: Town reclining on the "Hill of the 7 colours ", famous for its unique combination of colors.
Its urban layout was made around his main Church, that dates back to 1648.
Paste the church can be seen an old carob (Algarrobo), which saw much of the history of the canyon.

TUMBAYA: Former settlement of the Omaguacas. At present its appeal, besides its streets, are the cemeteries on the tops of the hills.
At its territory is one of the largest lakes in the region, the Guayatayoc Lake.

VOLCAN: His name does not refer to a volcano as he knows. "Volcano" is called in the region to large flows of mud falling from the hills in the rainy season and they tend to destroy everything that are in its path.
It has a special charm for his old railway buildings, abandoned today.
Other natural beauties are "Laguna de Gronda" and the Santuyo Waterfall of 20 meters high and located east of town.

THE TRIP:

Based on route No. 9 to join the route No. 34 and back again to route No. 9. Visit Purmamarca to observe "The Hill of Seven Colors", the Church and the craft market.
Passage through the "Posta de Hornillos" and then entering the summer village of Maimará.
Arrive to Tilcara: visit to Pucara and the Archaeological Museum E. Casanova, continuing to Huacalera go straight through the Tropic of Capricorn.
Photographic view of La Pollera de la Colla, visit the Church of Uquía, home of the Angeles arcabuceros.
Arrival Humahuaca: visit to the Cathedral and the Monument of Independence.
After lunch, start the return to San Salvador de Jujuy able to observe in the way the Painter's Palette.
Arrive to San Salvador de Jujuy, visiting the Hall of flags, the Cathedral, where the pulpit carved in wood and laminated in gold. Back on the path of cornice, exquisite subtropical vegetation; Crossing the "Abra Santa Laura", watching the dikes La Cienaga, Las Maderas and Campo Alegre.

• DISTANCE: 520 Km. approx.
• DURATION: Full Day(12 hs aprox.)
• TIMES: From 07:00 hs. to 19:00 hs. aprox .
• INCLUDE: Transportation, guides and insurance.
• NOT INCLUDE: Food and beberages.
• PRICE PER PERSON: ar$ 260 p/p

 IMPORTANT: This is not a cycling trip. It was designed for our guests who want outdoor activities and meet wonderful places but they are not considered able to do aboard a bicycle.

• LOCATION: 24°54′00"S, 65°29′00"O
• ALTITUDE: 1.683 msnm
• POPULATION: 11.785 hab. (INDEC, 2001)
• AREA CODE: A4427
• DISTANCE FROM SALTA: 183 km.
• TELEPHONE CODE: 03868
• FOUNDATION: 1640 (Manuel Fernando de Aramburu)

The Cafayate area is famous for its vineyards, for their excellent wines (the best grape is the Torrontés type) and its wineries.
It is one of the most important cities inside of the tour to the calchaqui Valley. Bus Stop in the road to Cafayate

The tour starts going to the south of the Lerma´s Valley, knowing for the cultivation of tabacco and towns of colonial architecture, linked to the Independence of Argentina.
After entering the Canyon "De las Conchas" (or Cafayate), knowing amazing and capricious images eroded by wind and water, as the Devil's Throat and the Amphitheatre, among others.
Once in Cafayate the tour visit its monuments, buildings, and can not miss a visit to some of its famous wineries, where you can learn all about the famous wine that is produced in the region.

THE TRIP TO CAFAYATE: Places that are known:

Cafayate Lermas´s Valley: Cerrillos Town, La Merced, El Carril and Coronel Moldes.
Quebrada de las Conchas: Visit within the Quebrada to the diferents attractions such as the amphitheater, The Devil's Throat, El Sapo, El Fraile, The Obelisco, The Castles, Etc.
Cafayate: A route through the town, visiting the main square, Church, wineries, Artisan Market, etc.
Then begins the return to Salta.

• DISTANCE: 390 km. aprox.
• DURATION: Full Day (12 hs aprox.)
• TIMES: From 07:00 hs. to 19:00 hs. aprox.
• INCLUDE: Transfers, guides and insurance.
• NOT INCLUDE: Food and drinks.
• PRICE PER PERSON: ar$195 p/p