Travelogues Salta

Los Cardones.

After what felt like ages of waiting in Tupiza (unfortunately there was only one night bus heading towards Tarija, so I spent the whole day improving my poor Spanish skills by...

We were already accustomed to the alarm clock ringing before 6am in San Pedro de Atacama. This time, however, we weren't going on a trip to the geysers or the salt flats, but to...

After our incredible tour of the Salar de Uyuni, we wanted to take the train from Uyuni to Villazon on the border with Argentina on the evening of October 30th. This train only...

A day of rest was good and luckily we felt a little better. Unfortunately, it was already time to drive back to Salta to return the rental car. Strengthened by breakfast, we set...

Los Cardones

Woken up by the sunrise, unfortunately, the cold also hit us a bit again, so after checking out, we first headed to a pharmacy. With hands and feet, we explained our concerns...

Cafayate is the capital of the Cafayate Department in the Salta Province. It is located at an altitude of 1,683 meters and has approximately 12,000 inhabitants. In Cafayate, we...

One of our major goals was to visit the Salinas Grandes. To get there, we had to drive over a pass with an altitude of over 4,000 meters and then descend on the other side....

We spent three incredibly beautiful and varied weeks in Chile, but now we wanted to continue north to Argentina. For the roughly 620km journey to Salta, we decided to hop on the...

The Yunga is an altitudinal zone on both sides of the tropical Andes at elevations ranging from 500 to 2300 meters. The Yungas is home to jaguars, sloths, toucans, etc...

Dieser Ort auf dem Weg nach Cachi oder besser gesagt die Landschaft war für uns sehr beeindruckend. Die Felsen haben sehr besondere gezackte Formen und es war einfach ein tolles...

The Los Cardones National Park is located on the way to Salta and is a landscape characterized by the many giant cacti...

The region around Cafayate is well known as a wine-growing region because the climate is very good and it is sunny and relatively dry almost all year round. We had planned to...

Jump is the provincial capital in the mountainous northwest. It was founded in 1582 and is known for its Spanish colonial architecture and Andean tradition. In Jump we were...

Then we continued to Cachi, where we had two rooms in a house that looked like a small work of art. The town has around 2,000 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of...