4-Day Trip to Salta by Air from Buenos Aires

Overview

Day by day itinerary

1. 1Arrival in Salta⌄

   Transfer from the airport to the Hotel.

   Overnight: 3-star accommodation (Standard with breakfast).

2. 2Wine tasting in Cafayate⌄

   After being picked up at your hotel, the guide will drive you with along the fertile Lerma Valley, you will pass different towns like Cerrillos, La Merced, El Carril and Coronel Moldes. This is an important area for tobacco plantations, as you will see along the road.

   Upon arrival into Cafayate, a picturesque village famous for its vineyards. Visit a winery with wine tasting included, the tour and tasting are guided by a sommelier who explains the particularities of the wine, the vineyard and the winery as well. Time for lunch in Cafayate, enjoy around the city and markets.

   In the afternoon, we return to Salta through Las Conchas Gorge, stopping in “Posta de las Cabras”, famous producer of goat cheese. The tour ends with the drop off at the hotels in Salta.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: 3-star accommodation (Standard with breakfast).

3. 3Quebrada de Humahuaca⌄

   A trip through the "Quebrada de Humahuaca" declared a World Heritage Site, where the landscape and the colors of the hills combine with the equally colorful cultures that inhabit this area. We depart at 7:00am from your hotel. On the way to Humahuaca, we go through different villages like Volcán, Tumbaya and Maimará.

   It begins with the arrival to the Town of Purmamarca to observe the Cerro de los Siete Colores (Seven Colors Hill), you will have time to visit the the Church and the Artisan Market and to walk around the village.

   After a short bus ride you get to Tilcara, where you visit the Archeological Museum and the "Pucará" (amazing indigenous ruins).

   Continue to Huacalera, passage of the Tropic of Capricorn, from where you can see the colors of the hill called the Pollera de la Colla.

   Arrival in Humahuaca with its important Cathedral and the Monument to Independence (El Indio) by the sculptor Soto Avendaño. Get time for lunch and tour the village.

   Return after lunch to observe the Paleta del Pintor route that frames the town of Maimara. The tour ends with the hotel return around 20:00 hs.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: 3-star accommodation (Standard with breakfast).

4. 4Departure⌄

   Transfer from the Hotel to the airport. End of services.

   Meals: Breakfast