Sights and sounds of Salta

Take the train to the clouds

On this popular full day tour of Tren de Las Nubes you drive from Salta City, going across the National Route 51 seeing the towns of Campo Quijano and Gobernador Sola before reaching El Alfarcito, where you enjoy a rural breakfast and see products handmade by the local community. Then continue to De Las Cuevas Gorge and on to Munano plain before arriving at San Antonio de los Cobres.

Here you board the Train to the Clouds for a spectacular journey which takes you over La Polvorilla Viaduct. Then return by train to San Antonio de Los Cobres where buses are waiting to take you back to Salta City, stopping on the way in Santa Rosa de Tastil where you can visit the museum and buy different handicrafts and local products at the Community Artisan Centre.

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Driving along the fertile Lerma Valley, you will pass different towns like Cerrillos, La Merced, El Carril and Coronel Moldes. All these places are dedicated to the cultivation of the land. This is an important area for the tobacco plantations, as you will see along the road. Travelling along the Quebrada de Los Conchas, due to wind and water erosion, you will be able to discover the different shapes of the rock formations such as "The Monk", "The Toad", "The Natural Theatre", "The Devil's Throat" and "The Castle". Upon arrival in Cafayate, a picturesque village famous for its vineyards, visit to a winery with wine tasting included. Time for lunch in Cafayate. Tour around the city and then you will spend some time in the handicraft market. In the afternoon, we return to Salta through Las Conchas Gorge, stopping in "Posta de las Cabras", an inn well known for its goat cheese.
Duration: 12 hrs.

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The journey leaves from Salta, but really begins once arrived to Purmamarca Village where time will be enough to observe the Seven Colored Hill, the Church and the Craft Market on the square, and a small walk along its narrow streets. We continue towards the town of Tilcara where we visit the Pucará (ancient ruins), the Archaeological Museum, and Huacalera, and then we cross the Capricorn Tropic, from where the colors of La Pollera de la Coya Hill can be seen and really good pictures taken because of the daylight. We visit Uquía and its church, where the paintings of the Arcabuceros Angels (important vestige in the zone of the Cuzqueña School) are kept. Arrival to Humahuaca will be at noon; this town has an important Church and the Independence Monument (the Indian) of the sculptor Soto Avendaño. After lunch we´ll observe, from the route, La Paleta del Pintor (Painter?s Palette) framing the town of Maimara. We continue to San Salvador de Jujuy where the Flag Hall and the Cathedral, characterized by its pulpit carved in wood and gold and the statues of Lola Mora are visited. Finally, we return to Salta through National Route N° 9 of abundant subtropical vegetation. The last stretch is: El Abra of Santa Laura, observing La Cienaga (The Swamp) dam, Las Maderas and Campo Alegre and returning to Salta through Vaqueros.

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The Salt of the Earth

Leave from Salta early in the morning for the journey to Purmamarca, with its fine church and the Square Craft Market. After touring the village you move up the Cuesta de Lipan to the impressive Salinas Grandes, one of the most visited destinations in the puna region of Jujuy. This is an amazing place where the white landscape merges with the deep blue sky.

Bring sunglasses for this spectacular salt plain in a remote part of the puna, some 3,350m above sea level. This dried up lake in the Holocene is now a 500 square mile crust of salt up to half-a-meter thick. On a clear day, the blinding contrast between the bright sky and the cracked and crusty expanse of white is spellbinding. Over the year, wind strips much of the salt away and it's most spectacular after summer rains replenish it.

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Salta City is outstanding amongst the other Argentina capitals due to its colonial past, reflected in its traditions and architecture.
The tour visits different historical places in the city, like the Cathedral, City Hall Building, San Francisco Church, San Bernardo Convent, and goes up the San Bernardo Hill where you can admire the places that you have already seen up close. The visit continues to the summer holiday village of San Lorenzo which will surprise you with the singular beauty of its well-known ravine. The tour finishes with a visit to the handicraft market.

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